Definition of "little hand" []

• The shorter hand of a clock that points to the hours (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "When she leaned closer and dropped her arthritic and be-ringed little hand on Melrose's knee, he got it off by offering her a cigarette."
• "He found a hammerstone to fit Groob's pudgy little hand and allowed him to play nearby when he worked, hitting broken pieces of flint to mimic the knapper."
• "The child rose, and pointed her little hand to the sky; the glow of evening lit her golden hair and flushed cheek with a kind of unearthly radiance, and her eyes were bent earnestly on the skies."