Word Meaning

Meaning of "hourglass" and the crossword clue

- Measuring device that people flip over
- old tick tock that used sand
- Old-fashioned timer
- Sand-filled timer
- 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.