ˈover-ˈhanded, a.
[over- 28 d, over adv. 1.]
1. Supplied with too many ‘hands’ or workers.
| 1765 Museum Rusticum IV. i. 5 Those children..are now set out to trades..by which means most trades are over-handed. 1886 Pall 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.
| 1840 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rur. Sports §454 Bowled by an over-handed twist. 1852 Dickens 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).
| 1883 Man. 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.]. |