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minute hands
n. (minute hand English)
Usage examples of "minute hands".
Slowly the minute hands of their watches circled, and every tick took them nearer to that great wall of cliff, barely eight hours away, that had to be climbed somehow: and almost dead ahead now, and less than fifty miles distant, they could see the grim, jagged peaks of Navarone topping the shimmering horizon and reaching up darkly against the sapphired sky, desolate and remote and strangely threatening.
The hour and minute hands point to spots that are exactly a third of the circumference apart, but the second hand is a little too advanced.
It had plain black hour and minute hands, and a wandlike red sweep second hand.