Right-handed
Right·-hand·ed
Right-handed
a.
- Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.
- 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.
- Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. (Zool.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Right-handed screw
- a screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a direction that the screw advances away from the observer when turned with a right-handed movement in a fixed nut.