Crossword-Solution: OVERHAND
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overhand | n. | The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery. |
| Overhand | a. | 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 | a. | Done (as pitching or bowling) with the hand higher than the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder. |
| Overhand | adv. | In an overhand manner or style. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OVERHAND | anagram | HANDOVER |
We have 15 clues for the answer “OVERHAND”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like a shot-putter's throw | 1 answer |
| Like a smash in tennis | 1 answer |
| Like most tennis serves | 1 answer |
| Like tennis serves | 1 answer |
| OVERARM | 1 answer |
| One way to pitch a ball. | 1 answer |
| Type of throw used in baseball or volleyball | 1 answer |
| Tennis stroke transfer | 1 answer |
| Type of tennis stroke | 1 answer |
| with hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level | 1 answer |
| Type of tennis shot | 2 answers |
| Tennis shot | 7 answers |
| Tennis stroke | 10 answers |
| Bluegrass instrument | 13 answers |
| KNOT, type of | 17 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with OVERHAND (5)
XIII This while, a churlish horseman of the band, Who little deference for his lord confest, His lance uplifting, wounded overhand The unhappy suppliant in his dainty breast.
Bobbsey were to do the operating or machine sewing, while the girls were to sew on tapes, buttons, overhand seams, and do all that.
When she sails from port, her rigging is generally slack; the masts need staying; the decks and sides are black and dirty from taking in cargo; riggers' seizings and overhand knots in place of nice seamanlike work; and everything, to a sailor's eye, adrift.
Boylike, Harvey imitated all the men by turns, till he had combined Disko's peculiar stoop at the wheel, Long Jack's swinging overhand when the lines were hauled, Manuel's round-shouldered but effective stroke in a dory, and Tom Platt's generous Ohio stride along the deck.
And every moment, with rapid action, the fishermen hauled in their lines, hand overhand, throwing the fish to the man who was to clean them and flatten them out.
Quotes with OVERHAND (2)
We formed an impromptu circle just so we could look at each other and memorize faces. We hardly noticed the waiting officials. We hardly noticed anything but our little family whose ties weren’t loosening at all. In fact, this impending separation only seemed to be binding us together with a double overhand knot, hard to untie and unfailing.
I wasn't allowed to throw big hooks and overhand rights until I'd been striking for three years. It's so you don't rely on those things from the very beginning. If your footwork sucks, and you can only stand in one place and throw your hands all crazy while the other person is running around, you're never going to be able to hit them.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1956–2025).