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ˈover-ˈhanded, a. [over- 28 d, over adv. 1.] 1. Supplied with too many ‘hands’ or workers.
1765Museum Rusticum IV. i. 5 Those children..are now set out to trades..by which means most trades are over-handed. 1886Pall Mall G. 27 Aug. 11/2 ‘The trade is over-handed’, the men cry. 2. (ˈover-ˌhanded). a. With the hand over the object grasped; in quot. as adv. = overhand adv. 3.
1840D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rur. Sports §454 Bowled by an over-handed twist. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. xxvi, The person..tosses the money into the air, catches it over-handed, and retires. b. overhanded knot = overhand knot (overhand a. 4).
1883Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships R. Navy (Admiralty) (1886) 91 Q. How do you make a reef-knot..? A. ..First make an over-handed knot round the foot of the sail, [etc.]. |