- 1. a. Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left. Source: opted
- 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. Source: opted
- 3. a. Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. Source: opted
- 4. adj. using or intended for the right hand Source: wordnet
- 5. adj. rotating to the right Source: wordnet
- 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. Source: webster
- 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. Source: adambom
- 8. r:36/j:64 a. using or intended for the right hand Source: ecdict
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