RIGHT HAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does right hand mean? 

• RIGHT HAND (noun)
  The noun RIGHT HAND has 1 sense:

1. the hand that is on the right side of the body

  Familiarity information: RIGHT HAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIGHT HAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The hand that is on the right side of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

right; right hand

Context example:

hit him with quick rights to the body

Hypernyms ("right hand" is a kind of...):

hand; manus; mitt; paw (the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb)

 Context examples 

The fingers of her right hand were slightly twisted, and there was a small spot on her arm.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She stood beside it for some little while, in a curious way, going through the motion of playing it with her right hand, but not sounding it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In his right hand he held a slip of litmus-paper.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But this time, before he dozed again, he tied a burning pine-knot to his right hand.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But he gave no sign of pain, and with his single right hand helped us lash the boat in its place.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Thus she went roving on through the wide world, and looked neither to the right hand nor to the left, nor took any rest, for seven years.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Mr. E. is Knightley's right hand.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“One moment, sirs,” cried Alleyne, who was leaning on Ford's shoulder, with the broken sword, which he had picked up, still clutched in his right hand.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He would have cut his right hand off before he would sell a State secret confided to his keeping.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Spilling out of his right hand were the two cartridges which he had failed to put into the gun and which he had clutched until consciousness left him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)