tell time

My piece of technological wonderment is small and black and helps tell time like a watch.

We made sun-dials on a clear spot of ground and could tell time perfectly from them.

And it might be very necessary to tell time under any of these conditions.

Nobody can tell time by a Turkish clock, but there was some comfort in watching it.

"Look out, Jerry, or you'll make yourself cross-eyed trying to tell time by both those watches at once," giggled Susan Atwell.

Cicily Weldon could not tell time last year after one trip to New York when her hair was "fixed up!"