little hand

1. 1.

   the shorter hand of a clock that points to the hours

   Synonymshour hand

   Broaderhand

Questions about little hand

What does little hand mean?

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

What is another word for little hand?

Close synonyms include hour 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 little hand a common word?

little hand is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.