overhand
adjective
thrown or performed with the hand raised over the shoulder; overarm.
overhanded
Example Sentences
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Mahomes threw TD passes underhanded, overhanded, and shoveled one on Kansas City's three possessions in the first half.
From Fox News ● Oct. 5, 2021
Mahomes tossed TD passes underhanded, overhanded and shoveled one on Kansas City’s three possessions in the first half.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2021
“This is something Errolson calls the ‘escape zip,’ ” Gibson said, indicating an unusual zipper along the jacket’s shoulder, and demonstrating how it could be used to enact an instantaneous, overhanded dejacketing.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2019
It has generally been accepted that pitching a baseball overhanded is unnatural, that the human arm is much better suited to the underhanded softball throw or the looping cricket delivery.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2016
The skirt and the bib should be hemmed to this upper belt, and all the remaining edges should be overhanded.
From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools by Ontario. Ministry of Education
