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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. 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.

2. Done (as pitching or bowling) with the hand higher than the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder. Overhand knot. See Illustration of Knot.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: adverb (adv.)

In an overhand manner or style.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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