Right-handed

Right·-hand·ed

Right-handed

a.
  1. Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.
  2. Having the same direction or course as the movement of the hands of a watch seen in front; -- said of the motion of a revolving object looked at from a given direction.
  3. Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. (Zool.)

Phrases & Compounds

Right-handed screw
a screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a direction that the screw advances away from the observer when turned with a right-handed movement in a fixed nut.