"dial plate" meaning in English

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      "form": "dial plates",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 133:",
          "text": "The vault of heaven itself, spangled with glorious luminaries, was a magnificent dial-plate on which the finger of God pointed eternally to the correct seasons of the feasts in the ecclesiastical calendar.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A clock face."
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          "clock face",
          "clock face"
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        "(now rare) A clock face."
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        "archaic"
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      "glosses": [
        "A person's face."
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        "(obsolete, slang) A person's face."
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  "word": "dial plate"
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      "glosses": [
        "A clock face."
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        "(now rare) A clock face."
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        "A person's face."
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        "(obsolete, slang) A person's face."
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