'Right-handed' definitions:
Definition of 'right-handed'
From: WordNet
adjective
Using or intended for the right hand; "a right-handed batter"; "right-handed scissors" [ant: ambidextrous, left-handed, two-handed]
adjective
Rotating to the right [syn: dextrorotary, dextrorotatory, right-handed]
Definition of 'Right-handed'
From: GCIDE
- Right-handed \Right"-hand`ed\, a.
- 1. Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Zool.) Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'right-handed'
From: GCIDE
- clockwise \clock"wise`\, a. & adv. in the same direction as the hands of a clock rotate, as viewed from in front of the clock face; -- said of that direction of a rotation about an axis, or about a point in a plane, which is ordinarily reckoned negative. Also said of the direction of a spiral, in which case the term right-handed is more common. Opposite of counterclockwise, and left-handed.
- Syn: right-handed, dextrorotary, dextrorotatory. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]