left-hand
- adjective
- /lɛft hænd/
- The square on the left-hand side represented the beginning point or possible trigger for the problems.
- left-hand side
- left-hand corner
- left-hand column
A new picture on the left hand side or my right hand side.
- A new picture on the left hand side or my right hand side.
- And as I make my final left hand banking, turn into wind now, now into wind.
Examples
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There's a hospital five blocks up on the left-hand side.
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So you find it on the left hand side of your browser window.
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So we need to move L over to the left hand side, OK.
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A new picture on the left hand side or my right hand side.
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I remember you were on the left hand side.
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Little green house on your left-hand side.
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Put your car on the left-hand side.
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He's sitting in the fourth booth down, on the left-hand side, with his back to us.
Fiction book (1994) -
When we enter the courtroom, you're gonna sit on the left-hand side, immediate family in the front row.
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You can find the grocery store on the left-hand side of the street.
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Etymology
The word left-hand comes from the parts left and hand, where hand can mean 'side', so left-hand describes something on or toward the left side. That's why you can talk about the left-hand margin or corner to point to the left side of a page or road.