dial plate

noun

A clock face.

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Meanings

noundial plate (plural dial plates)

plural dial plates

  1. archaicA clock face.

    The vault of heaven itself, spangled with glorious luminaries, was a magnificent dial-plate on which the finger of God pointed eternally to the correct seasons of the feasts in the ecclesiastical calendar.

    1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 133
  2. obsoleteslangA person's face.
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Chicago

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