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Webster 1913 Edition


Overhand

O′ver-handˊ

,
Noun.
1.
The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery.
He had gotten thereby a great
overhand
on me.
Sir T. More.

O′ver-handˊ

,
Adj.
1.
(Sewing)
Over and over; – applied to a style of sewing, or to a seam, in which two edges, usually selvedges, are sewed together by passing each stitch over both.
Overhand knot
.
See Illustration of
Knot
.

O′ver-handˊ

,
adv.
In an overhand manner or style.

Definition 2024


overhånd

overhånd

See also: overhand and over-hand

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

overhånd (indeclinable) (uncountable)

  1. the upper hand

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