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† ˈover-ˌhand, over hand, n. Obs.
[Properly two words, over a. and hand n. Cf. MHG. über-, oberhant, Ger. ober-, überhand.]
The ‘upper hand’; mastery, victory, superiority. (Usually obj. to get, have, or the like.)
c1200Ormin 5458 To winnenn oferrhannd off uss. c1205Lay. 2482 Guendoleine hæfde þa vfere hond [c 1275 ouere hond]. a1300Cursor M. 2508 (Cott.) Fra þai had geten þe ouer hand [Gött. ouerhand]. c1470Harding Chron. cxvii. iv, Eyther of them tryste the ouerhande to gette. 1524Wolsey Let. to Pace in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. xii. 25 If he may have an overhande in Italy. 1535Coverdale Hos. iv. 2 Theft and aduoutry haue gotten the ouerhande. 1602Warner Alb. Eng., Epit. 368 [They] had sundrie ouerhands of the Northumbrian Danes. 1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2) s.v., ‘To have the over-hand’, to obtain the mastery. |