Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The plate of a clock or other timepiece on which the hours are marked; the dial.
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Examples
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He that was sharp-sighted enough to see the configuration of the minute particles of the spring of a clock, and observe upon what peculiar structure and impulse its elastic motion depends, would no doubt discover something very admirable: but if eyes so framed could not view at once the hand, and the characters of the hour-plate, and thereby at a distance see what o'clock it was, their owner could not be much benefited by that acuteness; which, whilst it discovered the secret contrivance of the parts of the machine, made him lose its use.
God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005
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