CLOCK
\klˈɒk], \klˈɒk], \k_l_ˈɒ_k]\
Definitions of CLOCK
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.
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A watch, esp. one that strikes.
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The striking of a clock.
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A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.
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To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
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To call, as a hen. See Cluck.
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A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).
By Oddity Software
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A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.
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A watch, esp. one that strikes.
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The striking of a clock.
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A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.
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To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
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To call, as a hen. See Cluck.
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A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).
By Noah Webster.
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A machine to measure and indicate time by means of hands moving over a dial-plate; an ornament on the ankle of a stocking.
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Clocked.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A machine for measuring time, and which marks the time by the position of its "hands" upon the dial plate, or by the striking of a hammer on a bell.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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