hour-hand

The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph

statistics 2002

As the major, posted near his clock, said the last words, his little audience of three, assembled at the opposite end of the room, saw the hour-hand and the minute-hand on the dial point together to twelve.

Armadale 2003

Sometimes they would appear as an illuminated arch, with the shadow of Saturn passing over it like the hour-hand over a dial; at other times they would be like a semi-aureole of light.

Off on a Comet 2003

Above and beyond her the Zodiac glides, a north-hemisphere array she never saw in Argentina, smooth as an hour-hand ....

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

They also can be moved as slowly as two one-thousandths of a degree per second -- a pace slower than that of an hour-hand on a clock.

Apollo Communications 1970

We are like children who are astonished and delighted only by the second-hand of the clock, not by the hour-hand.

Graded Poetry: Seventh Year Various

Every time the minute-hand comes to where the hour-hand now is, the hour-hand has passed beyond.

To Infidelity and Back

For by the time the minute-hand gets to eleven, the hour-hand has passed on to twelve, and by the time the minute-hand has reached twelve, the hour-hand has passed beyond it.

To Infidelity and Back

The other wheels are so connected with this first, and the numbers of the teeth on them so proportioned, that one turns sixty times slower than the first, to fit its axis to carry a minute hand; and another, by moving twelve times slower still, is fitted to carry an hour-hand.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831 Various

He glanced at the timepiece: when the hour-hand reached one he would tell him; he would think now what he had better say -- how he should begin.

Charlie Scott or, There's Time Enough Unknown