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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.