| 单词 | running glass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrunning glass running glass n. now chiefly historical an hourglass, a sandglass. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > hourglass running glass1480 night-glass1504 hourglass?1518 sand-glass1553 glass1557 minute glass1626 watch-glass1637 time-glass1712 sand-clock1865 hand glass1875 pulpit glass1907 1480 Petty Customs Acct. in H. S. Cobb Overseas Trade of London (1990) 185 Rynnyng glasses. 1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 121 Their men..tooke out their Compasses, and running glasses. a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 192 I practised some Observations..by very true running Glasses. a1786 J. B. Ladd Literary Remains (1832) 140 Oh, come not with thy bloodless face, Thy crooked scythe, thy running glass, Thy skeleton all bare! 1836 Christian's Penny Mag. 17 Sept. 305/1 Time shall no longer show his running glass. 1882 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices IV. xxi. 633 Ships were furnished with running-glasses, i.e. sand-glasses. 1985 D. B. Quinn Set Fair for Roanoke ii. 25 Each vessel would have at least..six half-hour running glasses to help estimate speed and reckon time. < as lemmas |
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