The falling water level denoted the passing hour as it dipped below hour lines inscribed on the inner surface.
当下降的水位低于内表面刻下的小时线，表示经过了多少时间。
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By the seventh century, the word teon had become interchangeable with the tachund or hund of the Anglo-Saxon language, and so 100 was denoted as hund teontig, or ten times ten.
到了7世纪，“teon”这个词就已经可以与安格鲁-撒克逊语言中的“tachund”或“hund”互换了，因此100可以用“hund teontig”或“ten times ten”来表示。