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English Dictionary: righthand by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Right-hand \Right"-hand`\, a.
      1. Situated or being on the right; nearer the right hand than
            the left; as, the right-hand side, room, or road.
  
      2. Chiefly relied on; almost indispensable.
  
                     Mr. Alexander Truncheon, who is their right-hand man
                     in the troop.                                    --Addison.
  
      {Right-hand rope}, a rope which is laid up and twisted with
            the sun, that is, in the same direction as plain-laid
            rope. See Illust. of {Cordage}.
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