Associations to the word «Sundial»

Wiktionary

SUNDIAL, noun. A simple timekeeping device in which the shadow cast by a vertical pole or plate (the gnomon) is used to indicate the time of day.

Dictionary definition

SUNDIAL, noun. Timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope