| 单词 | minute hand |
| 释义 | > as lemmasminute hand minute hand n. the long hand of a clock or watch, which indicates the minutes. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of > hand(s) pinOE hand1563 teller1574 index1594 finger1603 palm1629 hour-hand1669 minute hand1720 index-hand1742 second-hand1760 moment-hand1766 little hand1829 big hand1849 set-hands1884 sweep hand1948 sweep second1948 1720 London Gaz. No. 5863/4 A striking Gold Watch with an Alarm, Hour-Hand and Minute-Hand. 1756 T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. II. 372 It was again ordered that a minute-hand should be fixed to it [sc. Hooke's ‘magnetical watch’]. 1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 184 Clock faces marking six, twelve, and twenty-four hours, mostly without minute hands. 1989 T. Kidder Among Schoolchildren ii. ii. 38 The minute hand was one of those which stored up time and then sprang the news on her all at once. < as lemmas |
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