Hourglass is valid Scrabble Word

Is hourglass a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
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9 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for HOURGLASS in dictionary:

NOUN:

an instrument for measuring the hours by the running of sand through a narrow neck
a timing device with two connected glass bulbs containing sand that takes an hour to pass from the upper to the lower bulb.
shaped like an hourglass
device with two glass compartments, containing a quantity of sand that takes an hour to trickle from the top section to the bottom one
An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower.
a sandglass that runs for sixty minutes

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

an instrument for measuring time consisting of a glass vessel having two compartments from the upper of which a quantity of usually sand runs in an hour into the lower one

Words related to HOURGLASS

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How to use HOURGLASS in a sentence

The cutting on the big birch was in the shape of an hour-glass.
He could make a barrel-chair or an hour-glass table, a box lounge and the mattress to put on top of it, or a low table for games and puzzles, or a window seat.
The ancients measured time by the dropping of water, like the falling of sand in the hour-glass.
A great bell there strikes off the hours and quarter hours, and there is a big hour-glass there too.
He carried an hour-glass in one hand and a dart in the other, and in the course of the dance kept continually pointing the latter at those who moved around him.
In a short time these become a small tree, an inverted pyramid resting on the apex of the other, so that the whole has now the form of a vast hour-glass.
With a grin of fierce delight, he lifts up his hour-glass before her, and, in spite of her resistance and that of a gentleman who attends her, is about to bear her off.
It shows a skull in a battered shield, which has for a crest a regal helmet surmounted by an hour-glass and two bony arms grasping a stone.
On its tower will be seen an inscription to Thomas Pitt and within, an ancient hour-glass stand.
Death, you know Miss Gourlay, is always represented as a mower, bearing a horrible scythe, and an hour-glass.

The State is shaped like an hour-glass, with the upper portion twisted to the left.
No hour-glass or warning clock was displayed in the bleak spare edifice.
The sand in the hour-glass is running low and when gone can never be replaced, and I am not much struck on old age.
De Caux, an old French poet, in one of his moral poems on an hour-glass, inserted in modern collections, has many ingenious thoughts.
Note her little library of big books, her writing desk and hour-glass, her pen and ink.
Jane was in a long wicker chair, with her pot of coffee on an hour-glass table.
Stratford has its quaint hour-glass stand in the village pulpit.
My hour-glass is nearly run out, but I hope I can see Christ to be precious to my soul.
Time no longer ran like the few sands in a delicate hourglass held by a fragile human hand, but like a majestic river fed by fathomless seas.
They made a flag, bearing upon it a white skeleton, holding in one hand a dart striking a bleeding heart, and in the other an hourglass.
His long white beard, his scythe and hourglass, all proved his identity.
An hour-glass within a rich and peculiar frame, supported on a spiral column, and apparently of the latter part of the seventeenth century, is yet preserved in St.
I can go to a young supper, without forgetting how much sand is run out of the hour-glass.
VIII Dust of Diamonds in the Hour-glass The axe of Theron Allen had opened the doors of the wilderness.
When he was gone Eustacia, leaving her telescope and hourglass by the gate, brushed forward from the wicket towards the angle of the bank, under the fire.
The principle was that of the hour-glass, water taking the place of sand.
The sand runs so slowly in the hour-glass on a dark, stormy night, in a half-ruined castle, ten leagues away from any living soul.
HOUR-GLASS HOUSES OF THE SETTLED KORAKS From a model in The American Museum of Natural History.
At the prow of his boat is the figurehead of a winged woman holding an hour-glass.
She liked everything but the winged woman holding the hour-glass.
Had she been that woman, she would have dropped the hour-glass into the blue, burying water, and have reached up her hand for the young man to draw her into the boat with him.
In those days very few people could afford clocks, but every one had an hourglass.
The stipulated price and time are weighing on his pen or his pencil, while the hour-glass is dropping its hasty sands.

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