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adjective

Right-hand adj.

Situated or being on the right; nearer the right hand than the left; as, the right-hand side, room, or road.

Chiefly relied on; almost indispensable. "Mr. Alexander Truncheon, who is their right-hand man in the troop."

Right-hand rope, a rope which is laid up and twisted with the sun, that is, in the same direction as plain-laid rope.

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Etymology of 'Right-hand'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Right-hand" Quotes from Famous Books

... the desperate order of maniacs he at present scarcely knew but by report. Throughout that awful night he could never close his eyes for the horrible unearthly sounds that assailed him. Singing, swearing, howling like wild beasts! His right-hand neighbour reasoned high of faith and works, ending each pious argument with a sudden rhapsody of oaths and never slept a wink. His left-hand neighbour alternately sang, and shouted, "Cain was a murderer, Cain was a murderer;" and howled like a wolf, making ...

— Hard Cash • Charles Reade

... hand know what your left does," continues the officer, in a tone of friendliness. They ascend to the iron gate, look through the grating. The officer, giving a whistle, rings the bell by touching a spring in the right-hand wall. "My lot at last!" exclaims Marston. "How many poor unfortunates have passed this threshold-how many times the emotions of the heart have burst forth on this spot-how many have here found a gloomy rest from their importuners-how many have here whiled ...

— Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter • F. Colburn Adams

... accept as samples two dozen left-hand gloves? This merchant brought two dozen right-hand gloves ...

— Round the World in Seven Days • Herbert Strang

... Sir Arthur soon gave the Antiquary other matters to think about. The Baronet came, so he said, to ask his old friend's advice about the disposal of a sum of money. The Antiquary drew from a right-hand corner of his desk a red-covered book, of which Sir Arthur hated the very sight, and suggested that if he had money to dispose of, it might be as well to begin by clearing off encumbrances, of which the debt marked in his own red book ...

— Red Cap Tales - Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North • Samuel Rutherford Crockett

... who was standing swaying affably from side to side, with his back to the fire. "Come here, Katharine. I couldn't see where you'd got to—our children," he observed parenthetically, "have their uses—I want you to go to my study, Katharine; go to the third shelf on the right-hand side of the door; take down 'Trelawny's Recollections of Shelley'; bring it to me. Then, Peyton, you will have to admit to the assembled company that you ...

— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf

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