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adjective

Right-handed adj.

Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.

Having the same direction or course as the movement of the hands of a watch seen in front; said of the motion of a revolving object looked at from a given direction.

(Zool.) Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; said of spiral shells.

Right-handed screw, a screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a direction that the screw advances away from the observer when turned with a right-handed movement in a fixed nut.

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Etymology of 'Right-handed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Right-handed" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Twice out of three times, with the right hand. Ma foi! I remember it well! I offered the master twenty guineas, Monsieur, if he would teach it me. But because"—he held out his palms pathetically—"I was right-handed, he ...

— The Wild Geese • Stanley John Weyman

... indicates, is a knife with a lanceolate-shaped blade. These also may be obtained in varying forms and sizes (Fig. 46, c, d, e). Fig. 46, c, is a single-edged, right-handed sage-knife. Fig. 46, d, is a left-handed instrument of the same type. The double-edged sage-knife is represented ...

— Diseases of the Horse's Foot • Harry Caulton Reeks

... knew how bad it had got, and a native instinct to be hospitable prompted an invitation to share the fire for the night. However, London was waiting for news and I decided to press on. The road could not be worse than the sea of mud in which I was floundering, and it might be better. We turned right-handed and after a struggle came up against three lorry drivers hopelessly marooned. They had turned in. Up a greasy bank we came to a stop and slid back. We tried again and failed. I relieved the car of my weight and made an effort to push it from ...

— How Jerusalem Was Won - Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine • W.T. Massey

... composed of an irregular superposition of alternate lamellae of right-handed and left-handed quartz. (See QUARTZ.) It has been shown by Prof. J. W. Judd that this structure may be due to mechanical stresses. In consequence of this composite formation, amethyst is apt to break with a rippled fracture, or to show "thumb markings," and the intersection ...

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