Definition of "leftward" []

• To or on the left. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Since it was his first year in the woods with a rifle, I ended up buying my "leftward" son an early 1970s era Browning BLR in .243 and told him to "shoot small" and he wouldn't need a second shot ..."
• "I've bought a couple of Ithaca M-37s but haven't figured out the rifle solution for the "leftward" son."
• "That sort of change, whether "leftward," "rightward," or in a direction that defies those classifications, is much more difficult and more worthwhile than anything mere politics can deliver."