Right-hand /(?)/

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.

Phrases & Compounds
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.