0 the part on a clock or watch that points to the hours. It is shorter than the minute hand. -- （钟表的）时针
Two clocks can be seen on the clock tower, one with an hour hand only, for the residents of the castle.
Each hour hand is 4.8 m long and weighs 220 kg.
The minute hands are each two feet two inches long, and the hour hand one foot seven inches long.
The length of the hour hand is 2.97mft 1, and of the minute hand 3.27mft 1.
The more familiar 12-hour analog dial has an hour hand that makes two complete revolutions in a day (12 hours per revolution).
Early watches only had an hour hand, the minute hand appearing in the late 17th century.
Its original dial had only an hour hand.
Every sixty seconds, the minute hand moves 1.5 ft, and the hour hand moves proportionately.
