RIGHT-HAND

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

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

2.
a.

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.