overhand
overhand adjective: executed with the hand brought forward and down from above the shoulders.
Adjective
overhand (not comparable)
- Executed with the hand brought forward and down from above the shoulders.
- an overhand shuffle of a deck of cards
- Synonyms:
- overarm
- Sewn with close, vertical stitches that draw the edges of a seam together.
- With the working part on top of the standing part.
- Laid such that the surface of the wall to be jointed is on the opposite side of the wall from the mason, requiring the mason to lean over the wall to complete the work.
- Done from below upward.
Noun
overhand (plural overhands)
- The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery.
- He had gotten thereby a great overhand on me.1533, Thomas More, Debellation of Salem and Bizance
Adverb
overhand (not comparable)
- In an overhand manner
Verb
overhand (third-person singular simple present overhands, present participle overhanding, simple past and past participle overhanded)
- Sew using an overhand stitch.
- Now, those little ends of the bag above the running stitches, are to be overhanded together.1913, Jane Eayre Fryer, The Mary Frances Sewing Book, →ISBN
overhand meaning in Bengali
overhand in Bengali
- ঘনিষ্ঠ, সুবিধা, শ্রেষ্ঠত্ব, কর্তৃত্ব, ওভারহ্যান্ড পদ্ধতিতে
Synonyms of overhand
Antonyms
Forms of overhand
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | over-hand |
| alternative form | overhanded |
| alternative form | over-handed |
| Noun | |
| plural | overhands |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | overhands |
| present participle | overhanding |
| past participle | overhanded |
| past | overhanded |
Origin of overhand
From over- + hand.
Words formed from overhand
Phrases with overhand
Words that rhyme with overhand
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- outstand
- bestand
- gland
- secondhand
- unscanned
- disband
- grand
- offhand
- unmanned
- unplanned
- aband
- aland
- fanned
- firsthand
- lotus land
- lotusland
- misbrand
- planned
- redemand
- reland
- repand
- scanned
- shand
- tanned
- thirdhand
- withstand
- 2ndhand
- astrand
- at second hand
- banned
- counterdemand
- desand
- fand
- grande
- haircut band
- hand
- interstrand
- manned
- misunderstand
- multiplicand
- nonbrand
- operand
- overmanned
- overplanned
- panned
- preplanned
- rebrand
- replanned
Questions about overhand
- What does overhand mean?
- Overhand means executed with the hand brought forward and down from above the shoulders.
- What is overhand in Bengali?
- Overhand in Bengali is ঘনিষ্ঠ, সুবিধা, শ্রেষ্ঠত্ব. See Overhand meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is overhand?
- Overhand can be an adjective, a noun, an adverb or a verb.
Words near overhand in the dictionary
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