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Definition of Big hand
1. Noun. Points to the minutes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Big Hand
Literary usage of Big hand
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. To the Hebrews by George Wesley Buchanan (1910)
"'"They say he comes to find out if big hand makes war against the English," I said.
... I told him what big hand said to Cornplanter and me in the clearing ..."
2. The Boy Scouts' Year Book by Boy Scouts of America (1922)
"A big man has a big hand and a long arm, and a little fellow has a little hand
and a short arm, so when the little fellow holds his little hand a short ..."
3. The Thorndike Arithmetics by Edward Lee Thorndike (1917)
"Read the inside numbers up to 11, saying, "When the big hand points to 1, it is
5 minutes past. When the big hand points to 2, it is 10 minutes past. ..."
4. The History of Nevada by Sam Post Davis (1913)
"... until he got a big hand, for, being an old gambler myself, I knew it would
always excite an unsophisticated gambler to have a high hand dealt to him. ..."
5. How to Speak and Write English: For the Use of Natives of India : English by William Rice Morland Holroyd (1875)
"Have you a big hand? I have a big hand. Has it a big bill ? It has a big bill.
Can he have a lamp ? He can have a lamp. I mnst have the lamp. ..."
6. Wyoming: Its History, Stirring Incidents, and Romantic Adventures by George Peck (1858)
"He found that four of the party had been induced to commit the terrible act by
an old savage by the name of big hand—having previously been wounded in the ..."
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