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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

... spiral growth and are paired—one belonging to the right side of the animal, the other to the left, as, for instance, the spirally marked horns of antelopes and the more loosely coiled horns of sheep and cattle—one of the pair forms a right-handed and the other a left-handed spiral. They are "complementary"; one is the reflection, as in a mirror, of the other. Why the narwhal's tooth does not conform to this rule is ...

— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester

... N. dextrality[obs3]; right, right hand; dexter, offside, starboard. Adj. dextral, right-handed; dexter, dextrorsal[obs3], dextrorse[obs3]; ambidextral[obs3], ambidextrous; ...

— Roget's Thesaurus

... hounds had gone right away up Redewater after an old dog fox they had picked up on the rocks beside the Doure; twice had he circled the Doure, then setting his mask westwards had crossed the Rede, and, turning right-handed, made straight for ...

— Border Ghost Stories • Howard Pease

... projecting part of the bridge a few paces from the spot where they had conferred; there he raised himself on the parapet that he might see which way Blondel turned at the end of the bridge. If he entered the town no more could be made of it: but if he turned right-handed and by the rampart to the Corraterie, Louis' mind was made up to risk something. He would follow to the Royaumes' house. The magistrate could hardly blame him for going to his ...

— The Long Night • Stanley Weyman

... men are that way," asserted the Emperor. "To be left-handed is usually to be two-handed; the right-handed people ...

— The Patchwork Girl of Oz • L. Frank Baum

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