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Definition of Right-hander

1. Noun. (baseball) a pitcher who throws with the right hand.

2. Noun. A person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left.

Definition of Right-hander

1. Noun. One who is right-handed ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Right-hander

right-footed right-footer right-hand right-hand(a) right-hand drive right-hand man right-hand men right-hand path right-hand rule right-hand woman

right-hand women right-handed right-handed pitcher right-handedly right-handedness right-hander (current term) right-handers right-hearted right-ho right-minded

right-of-centre right-of-way right-oh right-side-out(p) right-side-up(p) right-thinking right-to-die right-to-left shunt right-to-life right-to-lifer

Literary usage of Right-hander

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"For off-driving purposes a right-hander certainly prefers a left-handed bowler, ... The right-hander who steps in to drive takes two risks—the risk of a ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"Neat then made up for offence, and flung out a jolly right-hander, Full for the stomach of Spring ; but Spring judiciously stopped it, Else it had flattened ..."

3. Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing Containing Lives of the Most by Henry Downes Miles (1906)
"Tom tried his left, but Hurry stepped back, and as Tom followed, delivered a heavy right-hander on the mark, and then hi» left heavily on the mouth, ..."

4. The Esthetics of Motion, with Special Reference to the Psychology of Grace by Paul Souriau, George Henry Browne (1917)
"... hand as easily as a right-hander with his right; but the right-hander, seeing a ball thrown with the left hand, thinks the action ungraceful because, ..."

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