单词 | time-glass |
释义 | > as lemmastime-glass time-glass n. 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 1712 Boston News-let. 25 Feb. 2/2 (advt.) To be sold..Window Lead, Window Glass, Nails, Time Glasses. a1845 S. Smith Elem. Sketches Moral Philos. (1850) 122 If you were to say that man was like a time-glass,—that both must run out, and both render up their dust. 2010 A. Oakland tr. M. Ajvaz Golden Age xxxvii. 217 I, too, heard the quiet voices like fine sand falling on the bottom of a time-glass. < as lemmas |
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