- A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping
of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row
of them to the compartments in a dovecote. - To place in the pigeonhole of a case or cabinet;
hence, to put away; to lay aside indefinitely; as, to pigeonhole a
letter or a report.
- Measuring device that people flip over - old tick tock that used sand - Old-fashioned timer - Sand-filled timer - 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.