four-sided

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English

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A four-sided clock at Waterloo Station, London

Adjective

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four-sided (not comparable)

  1. Having four sides or faces.
    • 1952 October, C. A. Johns, “One Hundred Years at Kings Cross—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 650:
      The large four-sided clock in the central tower was made by Dent and exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851, where it stood in the middle of the British Avenue. [] each dial is 9 ft. in diameter.