LEFT HAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does left hand mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEFT HAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The hand that is on the left side of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

left; left hand

Context example:

jab with your left

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

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

Derivation:

lefthander (a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand)

 Context examples 

'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours, and you are mine; and we shall leave earth, and make our own heaven yonder.'

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

John, however, put him aside with his left hand, and, stooping over the stone, he plucked it single-handed from its soft bed and swung it far into the stream.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Left, left, says he; keep to your left hand, mate Jim!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But looking on my left hand, I saw a horse walking softly in the field; which my persecutors having sooner discovered, was the cause of their flight.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I noticed blood spouting from Kerfoot’s left hand.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As to me, I sat on his left hand, and the rest were grouped about us, on the nearest beds and on the floor.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The Movement Disorder Society version of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) Pronation-supination movements of left hand.

(MDS-UPDRS - Pronanation-Supination Movement of Left Hand, NCI Thesaurus)

The Movement Disorder Society version of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) Kinetic tremor of the left hand.

(MDS-UPDRS - Kinetic Tremor of Left Hand, NCI Thesaurus)

Here, on the left hand, there stands a shop window filled with photographs of the celebrities and beauties of the day.

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

Standing in the window we saw that his left hand was swathed in a bandage and that his face was very grim and pale.

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