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left-hand

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left-hand (lfthnd)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or located on the left.
2. Relating to, designed for, or done with the left hand.
left-hand
Adjective
1. of, on, or towards the left
2. for the left hand
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Adj.1.left-hand - intended for the left hand; "I rarely lose a left-hand glove"
left
left-handed - using or intended for the left hand; "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors"
2.left-hand - located on or directed toward the left; "a car with left-hand drive"
left - being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; "my left hand"; "left center field"; "the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream"
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left-hand [ˈlɛfthænd] left adj the left-hand side → la gauche, le côté gauche
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You float along down about twenty miles, and you'll come to a town on the left-hand side of the river.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
At last, convinced by the oft-recurring phenomenon, I cast my all upon the left-hand archway; yet it was with a lingering doubt that I turned a parting look at the sullen waters which rolled, dark and forbidding, from beneath the grim, low archway on the right.
Warlord of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Gurth was hurried along agreeably to this mandate, and having been dragged somewhat roughly over the bank, on the left-hand side of the lane, found himself in a straggling thicket, which lay betwixt it and the open common.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
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