overhand adjective 5adverb 1noun 1verb 1forms 3 adjective5 •Executed with the hand brought forward and down from above the shoulders.an overhand shuffle of a deck of cards •With the working part on top of the standing part. •Sewn with close, vertical stitches that draw the edges of a seam together. •Done from below upward. •Laid such that the surface of the wall to be jointed is on the opposite side of the wall from the mason, requiring the mason to lean over the wall to complete the work. adverb1 •In an overhand manner noun1 •The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery.He had gotten thereby a great overhand on me. — 1533 verb1 •Sew using an overhand stitch.Now, those little ends of the bag above the running stitches, are to be overhanded together. — 1913 formsoverhanded · overhanding · overhands