overhand

Etymology

over- + hand

adj

1. Executed with the hand brought forward and down from above the shoulders.
   an overhand shuffle of a deck of cards
2. (sewing) Sewn with close, vertical stitches that draw the edges of a seam together.
3. (of a loop in rope) With the working part on top of the standing part.
4. (masonry) 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.
5. (mining) Done from below upward.

noun

1. The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery.
   He had gotten thereby a great overhand on me. 1533, Thomas More, Debellation of Salem and Bizance

adv

1. In an overhand manner

verb

1. 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