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over-handed

over-handed is the alternative spelling of overhanded.

over-handed is the simple past and past participle of over-hand.

Meaning of overhanded

Adjective

overhanded (not comparable)

  1. Overhand.
    • That summer overhanded pitching was legalized, resulting in a slew of no-hitters, including the only ones ever pitched at Recreation Park.1998, Richard Bak, A Place for Summer: A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium, →ISBN, page 31
  2. Overstaffed.
    • If these proposed alterations were made, would not the best trades soon be overhanded?1867, John Watts, The Catechism of Wages and Capital, page 22

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Questions about over-handed

What is over-handed the alternative spelling of?
Over-handed is the alternative spelling of overhanded.

Words near over-handed in the dictionary

  1. over-firing
  2. over-fond
  3. over-genderization
  4. over-greedy
  5. over-hand
  6. over-handed
  7. over-handing
  8. over-hands
  9. over-heat
  10. over-heated
  11. over-heating

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