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ˌleft-ˈhander
[f. left hand + -er1.]
a. One who uses the left hand instead of the right; spec. in Cricket and other games, one who bats, bowls, etc., left-handed.
b. In mediæval fencing, a dagger carried in the left hand to parry a stroke or thrust.
c. A blow delivered with the left hand.
d. A left-handed compliment.
a.1881Standard 28 June 3/2 The left-hander was immediately hit to leg for four. 1900Daily News 12 June 8/4 For two hours and forty minutes the young left-hander had withstood the Middlesex bowling. 1937[see Chinaman 4]. 1937S. T. Orton Reading, Writing & Speech Probl. in Children i. 49 Prejudice..is so strong as to amount to the belief that the left-hander is abnormal. Ibid. 52 Parson..went so far as to hold that all left-eyed and right-handed individuals were native left-handers who had been shifted by training. 1940G. Marx Let. 5 Sept. (1967) 25 A tennis player with the weirdest assortment of strokes... He's a left-hander. 1961Russell & Espir Traumatic Aphasia iv. 29 The left hemisphere is usually dominant..for left-handers. 1970Daily Tel. 29 Dec. 10 Not all the evidence..supports his inference that left-handers have exceptional ability, even if they do range from Leonardo da Vinci to Sir Compton Mackenzie. Ibid., A nice assortment of..40 offensive slang words for left-handers, from kack to cuddy-wifter. 1974Times 6 Nov. 13 He continues to make runs for Western Australia..and has the advantage of being a left-hander.
b.1869Boutell Arms & Armour ix. 180 The weapon that in the 16th century was called a main gauche (a left-hander) was a dagger especially used in duels.
c.1861Macm. Mag. Feb. 273 He let fly a tremendous left-hander at the doctor. 1884Graphic 13 Dec. 625/1 He received a straight left-hander in the chest that sent him back reeling.
d.1959Times 28 Apr. 11/4 ‘Not bad’ might appear a good enough specimen of the simplest type of left-hander. |