clockern.¹

Brit.

/ˈklɒkə/, U.S.

/ˈklɑkər/, Scottish English

/ˈklɔkər/, Irish English

/ˈklɑkər/

Etymology: < clock v.¹ + -er suffix¹.

Scottish, Irish English, and English regional (northern).

A brooding or broody hen. Cf. clock hen n., clucker n. 1.

ΚΠ

1804 W. Tarras Poems 38 Crib some clocker's chuckie brood.

1928 W. C. Fraser Yelpin' Stane iv. 53 There sat the clocker quite contented, and there lay the eggs as whole as when she set them there.

2006 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 25 Mar. 12 The clocker wis broodin ower her chuckens, her three wikks' labours o sittin on the eggs at an eyn.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

clockern.²

Brit.

/ˈklɒkə/, U.S.

/ˈklɑkər/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: clock n.¹, -er suffix¹; clock v.⁴, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly (i) < clock n.¹ + -er suffix¹. Partly (ii) < clock v.⁴ + -er suffix¹.

a. A person who times the participants in a race or competition using a clock or stopwatch.

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the world > time > reckoning of time > [noun] > one who notes or measures time > in a race

timekeeper1805

timer1845

clocker1868

1868 Bell's Life in London 5 Dec. 7/2 Opinions differed on the subject of the ‘time’ in which the race was rowed, the computations of the various ‘clockers’ ranging between 23min 20sec and 24min 13sec.

1992 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 18 Jan. 9 He and two other prominent professional athletic officials had attended the GPS carnival specifically to time Carlton's run. Experienced clockers, they positioned themselves well.

b. Horse Racing. A person who times the training runs of racehorses in order to give a guide to form or calculate a handicap.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [noun] > officials

jockey club1775

clerk of the course1829

National Hunt1866

National Hunt Committee1873

clocker1895

stipe1922

outrider1947

1895 N. Gould On & off Turf in Austral. xi. 117 Ruses are resorted to at times to deceive or out-general the ‘clocker’ on the look-out for a good gallop.

1948 Daily Racing Form 29 June 2/2 Almost all training trials come under the view of competent and impartial clockers.

1997 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 26 June d19 Villany, a 2-year-old son of Runaway Winner, had the clockers checking their watches last Thursday when he drilled 220 yards in a sizzling 12.20, the fastest of 14 workouts that morning.

2. British colloquial. A person who alters the odometer of a vehicle so that it shows a lower mileage, usually as a dishonest means of fetching a higher price for a vehicle for sale. Cf. clock v.⁴

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1978 Daily Mirror 26 Oct. 6/3 How are clocks turned back? It's a fiddly job which involves taking them apart, say the AA. And you need to be a dedicated clocker to do it.

2010 Solihull News (Nexis) 31 Dec. 50 HPI..urges used car buyers to conduct vehicle history checks to reduce the threat of clockers.

3. U.S. slang. A street drug dealer, spec. one who works around the clock.

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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of illicit drugs

drug dealer1800

drug peddler1889

swing man1903

drug pusher1904

drug trafficker1912

dope-merchant1921

junker1922

dope-pedlar1923

junkie1923

pedlar1929

pusher1929

dope-seller1930

dope-runner1933

connection1934

dope-smuggler1937

tea man1938

man1942

dealer1951

score1951

passer1956

candy man1965

narcotraficante1980

clocker1989

1989 Newsweek 11 Sept. 19/3 The clockers are all juveniles, and one of them..is only 10 years old.

1997 Denver Westword (Nexis) 8 May These were nickel-and-dime guys... The street vernacular would cast them as ‘clockers’. But they had them cold on videotape, with a kilo of cocaine.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

clockern.³

Brit.

/ˈklɒkə/, U.S.

/ˈklɑkər/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: clock n.², clock v.³, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < either clock n.² or clock v.³ + -er suffix¹.Compare the following slightly earlier example of red clocker, denoting a stocking decorated with a red clock:1885 Granville (Ohio) Times 25 Sept. There is not a woman under sixty-five in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine or Vermont who does not own at least half a dozen pairs of poor Jenks' sixty-cent red clockers.

Now historical and rare.

A person who embroiders clocks (clock n.² 2) on hosiery, esp. as a job.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making other clothing > [noun] > making hosiery > one who

hosierc1440

stocking man1622

clocker1898

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > one who

broiderer1388

embroiderer1413

brawdsterc1450

browdsterc1450

brusar1474

browdinster1561

embroider1609

embroideress1723

clocker1898

needle artist1986

1898 L. Philipps et al. Dict. Employments Open to Women 39 Clockers, stocking..in stocking factories men weave the stockings, and women ‘clock’ and ‘close’.

1903 D. R. Dewey Employees & Wages (12th Census U.S. 1900: Special Rep.) 1174/2 Operatives who embroider fancy designs on the ankles of stockings are called clockers, from the clock or design placed thereon.

1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §407 Clocker embroiders clocks on hose and half hose, by hand or pantograph machine; sometimes further designated according to thread used, e.g., silk clocker.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1804

n.²1868

n.³1898

单词	clocker
释义	clockern.¹ Brit. /ˈklɒkə/, U.S. /ˈklɑkər/, Scottish English /ˈklɔkər/, Irish English /ˈklɑkər/ Etymology: < clock v.¹ + -er suffix¹. Scottish, Irish English, and English regional (northern). A brooding or broody hen. Cf. clock hen n., clucker n. 1. ΚΠ 1804 W. Tarras Poems 38 Crib some clocker's chuckie brood. 1928 W. C. Fraser Yelpin' Stane iv. 53 There sat the clocker quite contented, and there lay the eggs as whole as when she set them there. 2006 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 25 Mar. 12 The clocker wis broodin ower her chuckens, her three wikks' labours o sittin on the eggs at an eyn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). clockern.² Brit. /ˈklɒkə/, U.S. /ˈklɑkər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: clock n.¹, -er suffix¹; clock v.⁴, -er suffix¹. Etymology: Partly (i) < clock n.¹ + -er suffix¹. Partly (ii) < clock v.⁴ + -er suffix¹. 1. a. A person who times the participants in a race or competition using a clock or stopwatch. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > [noun] > one who notes or measures time > in a race timekeeper1805 timer1845 clocker1868 1868 Bell's Life in London 5 Dec. 7/2 Opinions differed on the subject of the ‘time’ in which the race was rowed, the computations of the various ‘clockers’ ranging between 23min 20sec and 24min 13sec. 1992 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 18 Jan. 9 He and two other prominent professional athletic officials had attended the GPS carnival specifically to time Carlton's run. Experienced clockers, they positioned themselves well. b. Horse Racing. A person who times the training runs of racehorses in order to give a guide to form or calculate a handicap. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [noun] > officials jockey club1775 clerk of the course1829 National Hunt1866 National Hunt Committee1873 clocker1895 stipe1922 outrider1947 1895 N. Gould On & off Turf in Austral. xi. 117 Ruses are resorted to at times to deceive or out-general the ‘clocker’ on the look-out for a good gallop. 1948 Daily Racing Form 29 June 2/2 Almost all training trials come under the view of competent and impartial clockers. 1997 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 26 June d19 Villany, a 2-year-old son of Runaway Winner, had the clockers checking their watches last Thursday when he drilled 220 yards in a sizzling 12.20, the fastest of 14 workouts that morning. 2. British colloquial. A person who alters the odometer of a vehicle so that it shows a lower mileage, usually as a dishonest means of fetching a higher price for a vehicle for sale. Cf. clock v.⁴ ΚΠ 1978 Daily Mirror 26 Oct. 6/3 How are clocks turned back? It's a fiddly job which involves taking them apart, say the AA. And you need to be a dedicated clocker to do it. 2010 Solihull News (Nexis) 31 Dec. 50 HPI..urges used car buyers to conduct vehicle history checks to reduce the threat of clockers. 3. U.S. slang. A street drug dealer, spec. one who works around the clock. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of illicit drugs drug dealer1800 drug peddler1889 swing man1903 drug pusher1904 drug trafficker1912 dope-merchant1921 junker1922 dope-pedlar1923 junkie1923 pedlar1929 pusher1929 dope-seller1930 dope-runner1933 connection1934 dope-smuggler1937 tea man1938 man1942 dealer1951 score1951 passer1956 candy man1965 narcotraficante1980 clocker1989 1989 Newsweek 11 Sept. 19/3 The clockers are all juveniles, and one of them..is only 10 years old. 1997 Denver Westword (Nexis) 8 May These were nickel-and-dime guys... The street vernacular would cast them as ‘clockers’. But they had them cold on videotape, with a kilo of cocaine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). clockern.³ Brit. /ˈklɒkə/, U.S. /ˈklɑkər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: clock n.², clock v.³, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < either clock n.² or clock v.³ + -er suffix¹.Compare the following slightly earlier example of red clocker, denoting a stocking decorated with a red clock:1885 Granville (Ohio) Times 25 Sept. There is not a woman under sixty-five in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine or Vermont who does not own at least half a dozen pairs of poor Jenks' sixty-cent red clockers. Now historical and rare. A person who embroiders clocks (clock n.² 2) on hosiery, esp. as a job. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making other clothing > [noun] > making hosiery > one who hosierc1440 stocking man1622 clocker1898 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > one who broiderer1388 embroiderer1413 brawdsterc1450 browdsterc1450 brusar1474 browdinster1561 embroider1609 embroideress1723 clocker1898 needle artist1986 1898 L. Philipps et al. Dict. Employments Open to Women 39 Clockers, stocking..in stocking factories men weave the stockings, and women ‘clock’ and ‘close’. 1903 D. R. Dewey Employees & Wages (12th Census U.S. 1900: Special Rep.) 1174/2 Operatives who embroider fancy designs on the ankles of stockings are called clockers, from the clock or design placed thereon. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §407 Clocker embroiders clocks on hose and half hose, by hand or pantograph machine; sometimes further designated according to thread used, e.g., silk clocker. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1804n.²1868n.³1898
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