Thesaurus: right-handed

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1. a. Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.
2. a. 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.
3. a. Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria.
4. adj. using or intended for the right hand
5. adj. rotating to the right
6. 1. Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left. 2. 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. 3. (Zoöl.) Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. Right-handed screw, a screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a direction that screw advances away from the observer when turned with a right-handed movement in a fixed nut.
7. Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- saidof spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. Right-handed screw, ascrew, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, windspirally in such a direction that screw advances away from theobserver when turned with a right-handed movement in a fixed nut.
8. r:36/j:64 a. using or intended for the right hand