Meaning of over-handed | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of overhanded.

alt-of, alternative, not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

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