Category:Right-hand

Right"-hand`, a.

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

2. Chiefly relied on; almost indispensable. Mr. Alexander truncheon, who is their right-hand man in the troop. Addison. Right-hand rope, a rope which is laid up and twisted with the sun, That is, in the same direction as plain-laid rope. See illust. of Cordage.