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ˌright-ˈhander
[f. right hand + -er1.]
1. A blow struck with the right hand. (Cf. left-hander c.)
1857Hughes Tom Brown ii. v, Tom..is..deposited on the grass by a right-hander from the Slogger. 1860Dickens Uncomm. Trav. vii, One of the combatants, receiving a straight right-hander with the glove between his eyes. 1883C. Reade in Harper's Mag. Dec. 132 The carter..received a dazzler with the left, followed by a heavy right-hander.
2. One who naturally uses the right hand; a right-handed person. (Cf. left-hander a.)
1885Myers in Proc. Psychical Res. Jan. 42 There are..some right-handers..who, if they try to write with their left hands, instinctively produce Spiegel-Schrift. 1968Listener 19 Sept. 357/1 If to right-handers this heart-cry sounds wildly exaggerated, it can only be because they are unaware of the inconvenience..they perpetually inflict on those of us who live the half-life of the submerged left. 1972Sci. Amer. Apr. 83/3 It is an interesting fact that right-handers with a strong family history of left-handedness show better speech recovery than people without left-handed inheritance. 1978Amer. Speech LIII. 285 Stone tools surviving from that epoch were mainly chipped by right-handers.
3. A bend to the right in a road, track, etc.
1970J. Miles Expert Driving Police Way xv. 139 On a right-hand bend I usually do not dip so early, as the lights are pointing away from oncoming traffic, but on certain right-handers I find it an advantage to have my lights dipped. 1973‘J. Ashford’ Double Run xiv. 113 The first right-hander with slightly banked curve was dead ahead. |