Dictionary Entry
overhand
overhand is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, adjective, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery.
- 2adjective
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.
- 3adjective
Done (as pitching or bowling) with the hand higher than the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder.
- 4adverb
In an overhand manner or style.
- 5adjective
sewn together with overhand stitches (close vertical stitches that pass over and draw the two edges together)
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- 6adjective
with hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level
"an overhand pitch"
"an overhand stroke"
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