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Nov 29, 2009
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sweep' hand"



Horol.
a hand, usually a second hand, centrally mounted with the minute and hour hands of a timepiece and reaching to the edge of the dial.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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