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Definition: Right-handed screw
Right-handed
\Right"-hand`ed\, a.
1. Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the
left.
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2. Having the same direction or course as the movement of the
hands of a watch seen in front; -- said of the motion of a
revolving object looked at from a given direction.
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3. (Zo["o]l.) Having the whorls rising from left to right;
dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of
Scalaria.
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Right-handed screw, a screw, the threads of which, like
those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a
direction that the screw advances away from the observer
when turned with a right-handed movement in a fixed nut.
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