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First Known Use of right-hand
1567
right hand
Definition of right hand
1 a
: the hand on a person's right side
b
: an indispensable person
2 a
: the right side
b
: a place of honor
Recent Examples of right hand from the Web
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Saturday night's hero – third baseman Eugenio Suárez – left the game in the fourth inning after taking a pitch off his right hand and was diagnosed with a fractured right thumb.
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What if Zuckerberg handed the CEO job over to Sandberg, his right hand for the past decade?
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Rawlings hits Evans-Smith with a solid right hand but Evans-Smith responds again with volume.
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Inside, the biggest change from the original F-Pace fits into the driver’s right hand (or left, on Jag's side of the pond).
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Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team had interviewed Van der Zwaan about his work in the early 2010’s with Manafort and Gates, Manafort’s long-time right hand man.
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While others might skirt genteelly over Charles Darwin’s scaly skin, George Eliot’s thick right hand, and the dismembered parts of Fanny Adams (an eight-year-old murdered in 1867), Hughes dives in.
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Fred VanVleet, who had missed the previous two games because of a bruised right hand, was a game-time decision and wasn't 100 percent.
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The footage shows Suiter darting into the vacant lot suddenly, gun in right hand and his radio in his left hand.
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First Known Use of right hand
before 12th century
RIGHT-HAND Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of right-hand for English Language Learners
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: located closer to your right hand : located on the right side
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: made for the right hand
RIGHT-HAND Defined for Kids
right-hand
adjective
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ˈrīt-ˌhand
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Definition of right-hand for Students
Medical Dictionary
right-hand
adjective
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ˈrīt-ˌhand
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medical Definition of right-hand
1
: situated on the right
2
: right-handed
right hand
medical Definition of right hand
1
: the hand on a person's right side
2
: the right side
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