Hourglass

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  • noun. An instrument for measuring time, consisting of two glass chambers connected by a narrow neck and containing a quantity of sand, mercury, or another flowing substance that trickles from the upper chamber to the lower in a fixed amount of time, often one hour.
  • adjective. Shaped like an hourglass.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An instrument for measuring time, consisting of a glass vessel constricted to a narrow passage in the middle, through which a quantity of sand, or sometimes of mercury, runs from the upper part into the lower in exactly an hour.
  • noun. The time measured by an hour-glass; an hour.
  • Having the form of an hour-glass.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower.
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  • noun. A clock made of two glass vessels connected with a narrow passage, with sand flowing through that passage.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a sandglass that runs for sixty minutes
    • Word Usage
    "QUOTE TO NOTE: I know the hourglass is running out."
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    hour-glass contraction  
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    sandglass  
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    egg timer  egg-timer  
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