Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
second (ordinal) + hand (“party”)
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second (ordinal) + hand (“party”)
“My Lord Oxford, by a second hand, proposed my being his chaplain, which I, by a second hand, excused.1826, Walter Scott, editor, Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, page 135:
Under certain circumstances there is always a danger in a young man's playing the benefactor towards the other sex, in his own person. A thousand times better do it by a second hand — engage the services of some kind aunt or female cousin.1832, James Sheridan Knowles, The Magdalen, and other tales, page 3:
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| secondhand | alternative | lexicographic | |
| second-hand | alternative | lexicographic |
second (“unit of time”) + hand (“pointer”)
... the ticking of a second hand. Tick, tick, tick. The clock. Jude wrenched himself free of his gift's trance, surprised that there wasn't a tearing sound when his hand came free of the doubloon. The visions fell away, and he felt his ...2018 April 17, Bryan Camp, The City of Lost Fortunes, Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC:
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ticking · sweeping · tick-tock
pl wskazówka sekundowa (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · id jarum detik (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · mk секунда́рник (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · mt sekondiera (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · ja 秒針 (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · nn sekundvisar (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · fr trotteuse (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · nl secondewijzer (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · de Sekundenzeiger (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · be сэку́ндная стрэ́лка (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · es segundero (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · ko 초침 (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · nb sekundviser (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · hu másodpercmutató (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · pdt Zekundenwiesa (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · sv sekundvisare (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · pt ponteiro dos segundos (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · fi sekuntiosoitin (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · cmn 秒針 /秒针 (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · pl sekundnik (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · bg секу́ндна стрелка́ (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · fi sekuntiviisari (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · ru секу́ндная стре́лка (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · be секу́ндная стрэ́лка (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · el δείκτης δευτερολέπτων (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · ar عَقْرَب ثَوَانِي (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · uk секу́ндна стрі́лка (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed) · fr aiguille des secondes (the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed)