over-handed
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.41 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adv
verb
simple past and past participle of over-hand
Example Sentences
- "Under-handed, over-handed, back-handed, left-handed, right-handed, standing at grotesque angles and almost standing on their heads, the Wonders fired the ball into the basket."
- "A piece of rope has an eye spliced in one end, and several over-handed knots made on the bight, at equal distances from each other."
- "If we enquire into the causes of this poverty and reduction of wages, we are met on every side by complaints of 'over-population,' 'redundancy of labour,' 'want of demand,' 'the labour-market over-handed,' 'gluts,' 'panics,' &c., and, notwithstanding, that over-population and over-production are relative questions, they are practically carried out in the most abstracted sense of the term."
- "Mine drops...like a curveball thrown over-handed by a left-hander."
- "I have been working in this country and in England, and we build over-handed if we get the stone as good binders ; without proper binders it would not be a proper way to construct a wall;"