Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sand-glass measuring a minute.
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Examples
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Other instruments that found a place on shipboard were the hour - glass, minute-glass, and sun-dial.
Early European History Hutton Webster
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"Close on nine knots, Cap'en," answered the man, who had just hove the log over the stern, and now stood, minute-glass in hand, calculating the result.
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In that one still minute she could almost feel her beautiful plan crumbling, by little bits, like a heap of sand in a minute-glass, away into the opposite end where things had been before, with nobody to turn them upside down again.
The Other Girls 1865
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` ` Come, bear a hand, you lubbers, and set us on board in the turning of a minute-glass. ''
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Inevitably, they'd camouflage themselves at the turn of the minute-glass.
Ben and Alice 2009
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" I had a tiny minute-glass to hand, the best I could do by way of keeping accurate time.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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