Crossword clues for overarm
overarm
- Provide too much weaponry, making such a delivery?
- Pitching style
- Swimming stroke descriptor
- Pitching motion
- Like some pitching styles
- Like most pitches
- Like many a baseball pitch
- Like bowling in cricket, usually
- Crawl stroke
- Above the shoulder (toss)
- (Sportingly) with the hand brought forward above shoulder level
- Like a baseball pitch
- Like many pitches
- One way to pitch
- Throwing style
- Like some swimming strokes
- Kind of pitch or swimming stroke
- Swimmer's ___ stroke
- Baseball pitcher's style
- How one bowls?
- Like many deliveries, finished with a lot of force
- Red chevron with flash clothing turning up like this, style for a bowler
Wiktionary
a. Throwing while having the hand above the elbow adv. Having the hand above the arm at the time of throwing
WordNet
adj. with hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level; "an overhand pitch"; "an overhand stroke" [syn: overhand, overhanded] [ant: underhand]
Usage examples of "overarm".
Bruce croaked a water-strangled reply and Ruffy came ploughing down towards him with clumsy overarm strokes.
He struck out overarm for, unlike most of his fellows, he was a strong swimmer.
Both struck out overarm, and Hal saw the longboat, close by, almost close enough to touch, but the Buzzard had lost all interest in them.
She was a strong swimmer, and even with boots on her feet and fully dressed she kicked out powerfully and dragged herself through the water with a full overarm crawl.
He came up swimming, reaching out in a full overarm crawl with the image in his mind of those fat black crocodiles he had seen on the sandbar.
He rolled it in a tight ball and threw it overarm into the spreading flames.
It seemed to Ryan that the only possible path of the attack would involve an overarm cutting blow, aimed at his own head and neck.
The Alamada spun on her heel and swung a chopping overarm blow towards A.
Gwen replied, picking him up and tossing him casually overarm into the pool.
I pushed with the current, using a long side stroke so as not to break the surface and show white water, restraining myself from going into an overarm stroke as the brightly lit ship crept closer.
They raised the spears overarm and began to stump forward, shouting each time their left feet hit the ground.
Kheda began to swim upstream, sliding his overarm stroke smoothly into the water to avoid any sound of splashing.
Brown came surging past him, swimming a lusty overarm stroke, with the lanyard of his packet of combustibles between his white teeth, and his thick black hair sleek with water.
Marian’s came down in a flashing overarm stroke, left hand sliding down the back of the blade for an instant to add force, then clamping on to the hilt as the bokken came to rest across Swindapa’s throat, motionless.