Sc. Also kar, ker. [a. Gael. cearr wrong, awkward, Ir. cearr left-handed, wrong, cearr-lamhach left-handed, Manx kiare in lauechiare left hand.]
a. Left, sinister: commonly in car-hand, car-handed. b. Awkward; perverse; wrong; sinister.
c. 1420. Anturs Arth., xlviii. With a cast of the carhonde, in a cantelle he strikes.
c. 1450. Wisdom Solomon, in Ratis Raving, 23. The visdome of the wysman is in his rycht hand, and the foly of the ful in his kere hand.
1548. Compl. Scotl., 115. He resauit the vryting in his kar hand.
1597. Skene, Exp. Wds., s.v. Hebdomas, Vpon the ker and wrang side, was placed the thrid Idole, Frigga.
1808–79. Jamieson, s.v., If you meet a car-handit person, or one who has flat soles. Ibid., Sc. Prov. You’ll go a car gate yet.
