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left-hand

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left-hand [′left ¦hand]
(design engineering)
Of drilling and cutting tools, screw threads, and other threaded devices, designed to rotate clockwise or cut to the left.


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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.
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.
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.
 
 
 
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