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LEFT HAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The hand that is on the left side of the body
Example:
jab with your left
Synonyms:
left; left hand
Classified under:
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:
Why, Lieutenant Stone, said he, with great cordiality, holding out his left hand to my father, I am very glad to see you.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We looked at each other, and together moved out into the hall; we each held ready to use our various armaments—the spiritual in the left hand, the mortal in the right.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It was lying wide of the metals upon the left hand of the track as one goes eastward, at a point close to the station, where the line emerges from the tunnel in which it runs.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Two doors from one corner, on the left hand going east the line was broken by the entry of a court; and just at that point a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, while she held a candle in her right.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At the same moment the left hand held up the body of the shirt so that it would not enter the starch, and at the moment the right hand dipped into the starch—starch so hot that, in order to wring it out, their hands had to thrust, and thrust continually, into a bucket of cold water.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
In her anger she clutched Rapunzel’s beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice round her left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snap, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
“Lie low, mes enfants,” cried Aylward, motioning with his left hand.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I viewed the town on my left hand, which looked like the painted scene of a city in a theatre.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“If I can't see, I can hear a finger stirring. Business is business. Hold out your left hand. Boy, take his left hand by the wrist and bring it near to my right.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
