What is "right-hand rope"

Right-hand \Right"-hand`\, a.

1. Situated or being on the right; nearer the right hand than the left; as, the right-hand side, room, or road.

2. Chiefly relied on; almost indispensable.

   Mr. Alexander Truncheon, who is their right-hand man in the troop.
   --Addison.

   Right-hand rope, a rope which is laid up and twisted with the sun, that is, in the same direction as plain-laid rope. See Illust. of Cordage.