overhand stitch

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   a stitch passing over an edge vertically

   Broadersewing stitch

Questions about overhand stitch

What does overhand stitch mean?

overhand stitch means "a stitch passing over an edge vertically".

Is overhand stitch a common word?

overhand stitch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.