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Overhand   Listen
noun
Overhand  n.  
1.
The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery. "He had gotten thereby a great overhand on me."
2.
(Baseball) A throwing or pitching style that is overhanded; also an overhand (2) pitch.





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"Overhand" Quotes from Famous Books



... from visiting friends in Maine. She's an awfully good swimmer. Watch her." The girl poised for an instant on the edge of the float and then dived gracefully into the water, striking out with a powerful overhand stroke for another float a quarter of a mile out in the Sound. The boys watched her red cap as she rounded the float and started back, swimming easily and expertly. When she reached the beach, ...
— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks
... my grandmother, "I shall have to teach you then; I am surprised! ten years old and not know how to sew! At your age, your Aunt Emily was almost an expert needlewoman; she could do overhand, hemming, felling, backstitching, hemstitching, running, catstitching, buttonholes, and ...
— Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic • Olive Thorne Miller


Words linked to "Overhand" :   handmade, athletics, overhand pitch, overhanded, hand-crafted, overarm, oversewn, sport, overhand stitch, round-arm, overhand knot, underhand


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