Synonyms for hourglass

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ouuh r-glas, -glahs, ou-er-

Phonetic Transcription : ˈaʊərˌglæs, -ˌglɑs, ˈaʊ ər-

Top 10 synonyms for hourglass

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Définition of hourglass

Origin : 1510s, from hour + glass. Used 19c. in a variety of technical and scientific senses to describe the shape; reference to women's bodies is attested by 1897.
Men condemn corsets in the abstract, and are sometimes brave enough to insist that the women of their households shall be emancipated from them; and yet their eyes have been so generally educated to the approval of the small waist, and the hourglass figure, that they often hinder women who seek a hygienic style of dress. [Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, "The Story of My Life," 1898]

As in chronometer : noun watch
As in timepiece : noun device that tells time
As in clock : noun timekeeping device

Example sentences :

The marble was but roughly hewn, in lines that held the suggestion of an hourglass.
Extract from : « A Bookful of Girls » by Anna Fuller

There is a good oak pulpit, with hourglass holder, and some heavy 15th-cent.
Extract from : « Somerset » by G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade

To calculate it one must reckon a century for every turn of the hourglass.
Extract from : « John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 10 (of 10) » by John L. Stoddard

At the sound the bearded old man raises his sceptre, opens his mouth, and turns an hourglass.
Extract from : « Christopher and the Clockmakers » by Sara Ware Bassett

I think an hourglass running out would help the notion; perhaps her little tilings upon his knee, or in his hand.
Extract from : « The Letters of Charles Dickens » by Charles Dickens

The latter had an hourglass on his head, and in his hand a scythe, with which he aimed a blow at Mercury's feet.
Extract from : « Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions » by Charles Mackay

The hourglass figure can of course be construed as the "filled-in angle" enlarged.
Extract from : « Mohave Pottery » by Alfred L. Kroeber

It seems to refer to paired crossing lines as part of hourglass figures.
Extract from : « Mohave Pottery » by Alfred L. Kroeber

Sometimes it will be nearly globular, again long and thin, or it may be constricted like an hourglass.
Extract from : « The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide » by Augusta Foote Arnold

All refused to answer her inquiries, but one of them, with a sinister smile, placed the hourglass and skull beside her.
Extract from : « The Lancashire Witches » by William Harrison Ainsworth

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