The shorter hand of a clock that points to the hours(noun)
WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
Use "little hand" in a sentence
"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."