The mouth is hemmed or overhanded with horse-hair, and the sides are usually sewed through and through with the same.
"Wake-Robin" by John Burroughs
Overhand's the only way to do it.
"Smoke Bellew" by Jack London
The "Figure-Eight Knot" is almost as simple as the overhand and is plainly shown in Figs.
"Knots, Splices and Rope Work" by A. Hyatt Verrill
The pieces for an overhand seam should be pinned carefully, placing the pins at right angles to the edge.
"Textiles and Clothing" by Kate Heintz Watson
The woman was ploughing through the water with great overhand strokes.
"Little Miss Grouch" by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Just then she made a spring for that rope ladder of ours and overhands up like a trapeze star.
"Shorty McCabe" by Sewell Ford
A winze is sunk underhand, while a rise is put up overhand.
"Principles of Mining" by Herbert C. Hoover
The two ropes are laid alongside one another, then with each end an overhand knot is made around the standing part of the other.
"Boy Scouts Handbook" by Boy Scouts of America
There is also a bundle of unspun hair tied in the center with an overhand knot (139543).
"A Burial Cave in Baja California" by William C. Massey
That would be as silly as using an overhand stab with a dagger.
"Nor Iron Bars a Cage...." by Gordon Randall Garrett
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Lyle Pfaff can't muster the strength to shoot a basketball overhand anymore.
He'll still have an overhand delivery but drop down at times to keep hitters off-guard.
Squat down and grab the bar with a shoulder-width, overhand grip.
Bring the ends together, and tie them in an overhand knot.
He walks directly to the counter and, with a sweeping overhand gesture, extends cash to the clerk, bills held vertically in his fingers.
Grab a dumbbell with an overhand grip.
For as long as I've climbed, I've heard different views on what backup to use when tying in: Yosemite finish, double-barrel knot, overhand, or 18 inches of tail.
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Inside the droplet the repulsive behaviour of the point charges takes overhand and causes them to be very evenly spread out there.
Fluctuations of eigenvalues of random normal matrices
Jonasson, J.; The overhand shuffle mixes in Θ(n2 log n) steps, Ann.
Mixing times for the interchange process
One easily observes that the configurations in MV ( ¯σ) contain interfaces with no overhands.
A roughening transition indicated by the behaviour of ground states
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