LEFT-HAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does left-hand mean? 

• LEFT-HAND (adjective)
  The adjective LEFT-HAND has 2 senses:

1. intended for the left hand

2. located on or directed toward the left

  Familiarity information: LEFT-HAND used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEFT-HAND (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Intended for the left hand

Synonyms:

left; left-hand

Context example:

I rarely lose a left-hand glove

Similar:

left-handed (using or intended for the left hand)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Located on or directed toward the left

Context example:

a car with left-hand drive

Similar:

left (being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north)

 Context examples 

Martin glanced at the upper left-hand corner and read the name and address of the Transcontinental Monthly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There is no vehicle save a dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you sit on the left-hand side of the driver.

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

“Place your finger and thumb upon the left-hand bottom corner of this card, Charles,” said he.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The door of the left-hand flat upon the third landing was standing ajar.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Right in front of the house, upon the left-hand side of the drive, there stood a patriarch among oaks, one of the most magnificent trees that I have ever seen.

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

Although I left the office at half past three, and was prowling about the place of appointment within a few minutes afterwards, the appointed time was exceeded by a full quarter of an hour, according to the clock of St. Andrew's, Holborn, before I could muster up sufficient desperation to pull the private bell-handle let into the left-hand door-post of Mr. Waterbrook's house.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As they passed the old church, which stood upon a mound at the left-hand side of the village street the door was flung open, and a stream of worshippers wound down the sloping path, coming from the morning mass, all chattering like a cloud of jays.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the wall.

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

He laughed as he spoke, and I saw with a thrill that his second tooth upon the left-hand side had been very badly stuffed with gold.

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

At each of these inquiries Mr. Barkis shuffled nearer to her, and gave her another nudge; so that at last we were all crowded together in the left-hand corner of the cart, and I was so squeezed that I could hardly bear it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)