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Definition of Sweep hand
1. Noun. A second hand that is mounted on the same center as the hour and minute hand and is read on the minutes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweep Hand
Literary usage of Sweep hand
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of Applied Electricity: A General Reference Work on Direct by American Technical Society (1916)
"This meter is generally used for measuring the energy supplied for battery charging
and the large sweep hand permits a more accurate reading to be taken on ..."
2. The Indian Sign Language: With Brief Explanatory Notes of the Gestures by William Philo Clark (1884)
"The Yankton Sioux sometimes sweep hand out from heart, turning, back down, as in
DAY. Deaf-mutes place palmar-surface ends of fingers of extended right hand ..."
3. The Indian Sign Language: With Brief Explanatory Notes of the Gestures by William Philo Clark (1885)
"The Yankton Sioux sometimes sweep hand out from heart, turning, back down, as in
DAY. Deaf-mutes place palmar-surface ends of fingers of extended right hand ..."
4. The Indian Sign Language: With Brief Explanatory Notes of the Gestures by William Philo Clark (1884)
"The Yankton Sioux sometimes sweep hand out from heart, turning, back down, as in
DAY. Deaf-mutes place palmar-surface ends of fingers of extended right hand ..."
5. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1899)
"The " sweep's hand " is another favourite expression as applied to a black patch
on the quarter of a chesnut, and it is an almost unfailing sign of Blair ..."
6. The American Pageant Revisited: Recollections of a Stanford Historian by Thomas A. Bailey (1982)
"For some years at Stanford I would synchronize the sweep hand of my watch with
the beginning bell, conclude my peroration three or four seconds before the ..."
7. Cyclopedia of Applied Electricity: A General Reference Work on Direct by American Technical Society (1916)
"This meter is generally used for measuring the energy supplied for battery charging
and the large sweep hand permits a more accurate reading to be taken on ..."
8. The Indian Sign Language: With Brief Explanatory Notes of the Gestures by William Philo Clark (1884)
"The Yankton Sioux sometimes sweep hand out from heart, turning, back down, as in
DAY. Deaf-mutes place palmar-surface ends of fingers of extended right hand ..."
9. The Indian Sign Language: With Brief Explanatory Notes of the Gestures by William Philo Clark (1885)
"The Yankton Sioux sometimes sweep hand out from heart, turning, back down, as in
DAY. Deaf-mutes place palmar-surface ends of fingers of extended right hand ..."
10. The Indian Sign Language: With Brief Explanatory Notes of the Gestures by William Philo Clark (1884)
"The Yankton Sioux sometimes sweep hand out from heart, turning, back down, as in
DAY. Deaf-mutes place palmar-surface ends of fingers of extended right hand ..."
11. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1899)
"The " sweep's hand " is another favourite expression as applied to a black patch
on the quarter of a chesnut, and it is an almost unfailing sign of Blair ..."
12. The American Pageant Revisited: Recollections of a Stanford Historian by Thomas A. Bailey (1982)
"For some years at Stanford I would synchronize the sweep hand of my watch with
the beginning bell, conclude my peroration three or four seconds before the ..."
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