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Meanings of second hand in английском

Previously owned and used by another.

Usage of second hand in английском
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You can save a fortune buying second hand clothes, furniture and toys.
News.com.au
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When the second hand passed twelve, he looked sharply at the hunters.
Immortality Inc.
3
Carthage was the colony, and received the Indian produce at second hand.
An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of ...
4
The second hand on the ship's clock kept eating up precious time.
Norway to hide: a passport to peril mystery
5
He counted the beats off against the second hand on his watch.
Something in the water
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The second hand took the risk of the given-out work, you see.
The Uncommercial Traveller
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So then me inspired by artists is like being inspired second hand.
The new yorker
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He pulled a second hand-cannon from his rucksack and checked it thoroughly.
Mech
9
They tracked around over the smooth rock like a clock's second hand.
The Neutronium Alchemist
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After the meal they sallied out to a second hand clothes shop.
By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War
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They gave the Americans a second hand battle field to begin on.
"Same old Bill, eh Mable!"
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These sophistical confidences of his were nothing but Rousseau at second hand.
Poor Miss Finch
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My own lesson I got at second hand, and on a Sunday.
A Florida Sketch-Book
14
Why should she only hear of him at second hand-alwaysand always?
Donal Grant
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Evi watched the second hand make its way round the clock three times.
Blood harvest
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Unfortunately, the second hand on his watch hit zero before Frankie could reply.
Sign of the cross
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Second hand through the time
Second hand across language varieties
Australia
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New Zealand
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Ireland
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