sundial
an instrument that indicates the time of day by means of the position, on a graduated plate or surface, of the shadow of the gnomon as it is cast by the sun.
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For people with young children, beach tents provide consistent and reliable beach shade—you won’t have to keep moving your umbrella like a sundial throughout the day to keep everyone covered.
The best beach tents help you keep your cool even on the hottest days | Eric Alt | November 22, 2021 | Popular-ScienceIt’s amazing to use the stars spinning overhead during the winter as a sundial, where by the position of stars you know what time of day or night it is.
What You Can Learn from Living in Antarctica - Issue 92: Frontiers | Marissa Grunes | November 11, 2020 | NautilusHe has been accused of slow and ugly throwing mechanics (one sports writer said you could time his release with a sundial).
Our next quest was for a sundial plate, but it was a vain search, for not a store in town carried such an article.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard EatonThe grape arbour along the west side of the sundial lawn was also built, of plain chestnut.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard Eaton
“This is no time for bad puns,” she answered, dragging me swiftly down through the orchard, and up again to the sundial.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard EatonThen it whitened the sundial lawn, reminding us to take the wooden dial post in for the winter.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard EatonBeside, a sundial is not a portable instrument, and Joshua and his men had something more pressing to do than to loiter round it.
The Astronomy of the Bible | E. Walter Maunder
British Dictionary definitions for sundial
/ (ˈsʌnˌdaɪəl) /
a device indicating the time during the hours of sunlight by means of a stationary arm (the gnomon) that casts a shadow onto a plate or surface marked in hours
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