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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Min·ute, a. Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes.
 Minute bell, a bell tolled at intervals of a minute, as to give notice of a death or a funeral.
 Minute book, a book in which written minutes are entered.
 Minute glass, a glass measuring a minute or minutes by the running of sand.
 Minute gun, a discharge of a cannon repeated every minute as a sign of distress or mourning.
 Minute hand, the long hand of a watch or clock, which makes the circuit of the dial in an hour, and marks the minutes.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 minute gun
      n : (military) gun that is discharged once every minute (usually
          as part of a military funeral)