hour hand

1. 1.

   the shorter hand of a clock that points to the hours

   Synonymslittle hand

   Broaderhand

Questions about hour hand

What does hour hand mean?

hour hand means "the shorter hand of a clock that points to the hours".

What is another word for hour hand?

Close synonyms include little hand. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hour hand a common word?

hour hand is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.