Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 83 Clokkynge of hennys, crispiatus.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 24^v Dooe ye not paciently suffre at home in your hous y^e cacklyng of hennes when thei make a clockyng?

1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. Cxvii Rvgitus ventris be the latyn words. In englysh it is named crokynge or clockyng in ones bely.

1684 R. Johnson Enchiridion Medicum iii. iv. 152 It [sc. a hiccough] is called in English a Sobbing or Yexing, being something like the Clocking of Hens with Chickens.

1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words Clocking, the sound made by falling, gurgling water.

1993 J. B. Keane Curriculum Vitae in Christmas Tales 33 His assistant Miss Finnerty clocked reproachfully as though she were a hen whose egg-laying had been precipitately disrupted. She reserved all her clocking for Fred.

1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 369 You are so keen in the Clocking, you'll die in the Nest.

1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 138 Hens which are or have been hatching; to scare them from clocking, gude wives plunge them into cold water.

1934 Irish Times 27 Nov. 4/2 Wherever poultry-keepers meet..the conversation turns automatically to either of two subjects—that of indiscriminate clocking, or brooding, and that of the moult.

2001 J. McGowan Echoes Savage Land (2006) v. 142 Allowances were made for the occasional respite required to cope with their annual bouts of hen troubles such as ‘pinfeathers’ (moulting) or ‘clocking’ (broody).

1786 R. Burns Poems 221 As soon 's the clockin-time is by, An' the wee powts begun to cry.

1936 G. Wilson in Sc. National Dict. (1952) III. 143/1 [Banffshire] I doot Bell's weel past clockin-time noo.

1863 Leeds Times 8 Aug. 7/3 The ‘Builder’ gives a list of no less than fifteen fine tenor bells, and ten others in London parish churches, cracked by clocking.

1901 H. E. Bulwer Gloss. Techn. Terms Bells & Ringing 37 Clocking, the objectionable practice..of hitching the bell rope or a separate cord round the ‘flight’ of the ‘clapper’, while the bell is at rest, in order to pull the ‘clapper’ against the bell, with the frequent result of cracking the latter.

1989 Encycl. Brit. II. 70/2 A secondary role is the human play of simple unharmonized melodies. From the 13th century this was done manually by pulling ropes attached to clappers (‘clocking’, now rare).

1868 Baily's Monthly Mag. Sept. 256 The ocean match to Cherbourg started with a nice S.E. breeze... The Aline,..Hyacinth, and several others had entered, but the latter, with the noble Vice-Commodore on board, started early for Cherbourg, to insure due ‘clocking’ of the arrivals.

1888 Athenæum 29 Sept. 412/3 That ‘this race was run in 1 minute 4 seconds and a half’... In ‘Baily's Racing Register’..nothing at all is said about this extraordinary ‘clocking’.

1935 W. Faulkner Pylon 29 And here is the official clocking of the winners of the two hundred cubic inch race which you just witnessed.

1992 A. Girdler Harley-Davidson: Amer. Motorcycle 47 Harley teamster Otto Walker topped time trials with a clocking of 107.78mph for a flying lap.

2017 @JamaicaObserver 4 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 19 May 2020) Impressive clockings in 800m events at Carifta trials.

1948 Proc. Symp. Large-scale Digital Calculating Machinery 1947 106 This clocking is very important as it must keep the pulses in step as well as prevent degeneration of the pulses over a number of cycles.

1969 IEEE Trans. Computers 18 3207 The requisite clocking is provided by the input variable changes.

2017 J. Drozd et al. in V. Kharchenko et al. Green IT Engin. 45 Some types of clock pulse sources are used for clocking of the microcontroller and its periphery.

1974 Daily Tel. 2 Feb. 2 A ‘money back’ indemnity to protect used car buyers against ‘clocking’—the trade term for winding back mileage readings on speedometers—is to be introduced next month by a major car auction group.

2015 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 14 Sept. 11 A report by the Office of Fair Trading estimated that clocking costs consumers £580 million a year in higher prices.

1916 Derby Daily Tel. 7 Aug. Witness said his idea was that this clocking in by others had been going on for six weeks.

2020 Independent (Nexis) 27 Mar. (Voices section) 36 MEPs usually get an attendance allowance for clocking in at Brussels and Strasbourg.

1904 Manch. Courier 12 July (Morning Express ed.) 8/5 The men always rushed the nearest way to join the line for ‘clocking off’.

2009 Independent 17 June 31/1 Counting down the minutes to clocking off and the days to our next holiday are national pastimes.

1919 Evening Tel. & Post (Dundee) 23 Jan. 4/3 Thee was no sign this morning..that any settlement of the dispute with regard to the minutes of grace at clocking on time..was in immediate view.

2002 D. Goleman et al. Business: Ultimate Resource 898/2 ‘Clocking on’, the traditional means of recording whether someone had turned up for work, was abolished.

1917 Daily Mail 3 Aug. 5/4 I..informed him that I would get his mileage registered and checked from the time of his clocking-out to the time of his arrival at King's Cross.

1941 Gloucs. Jrnl. 27 Dec. 8/5 Watkins' card was similarly stamped except that his ‘clocking’ out time was 4:30 p.m.

2020 @MissHannahMelia 18 May in twitter.com (accessed 19 May 2020) I worked overtime all weekend... This is the hazard of working from home. Clocking out is a myth.

1873 World (N.Y.) 14 Dec. 6/4 Silk hosiery..clocked on the sides in white or some contrasting color, the clocking running into delicate and elaborate embroidery.

1922 Harper's Bazaar Sept. 111/1 There are Corticelli Stockings for every occasion—-the sheerest stockings for evening, the new French openwork clocking for street wear.

2020 L. Frantz Uncommon Woman xvi, ‘Will you look at that. Fancy clocking to boot,’ she said as she clucked over the detailed embroidery.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Singultiens gallina, a clockinge hen.

1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week iii. 25 Let..The clocking hen make friendship with the kite.

1773 G. White Let. 26 Mar. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 150 Thus an hen, just become a mother, is no longer that placid bird she used to be, but with feathers standing on end, wings hovering, and clocking note, she runs about like one possessed.

1778 A. Wilson Teisa 13 The clocking mother, piteously distrest For her lost murder'd one, scarce heeds the rest.

1889 Selborne Mag. Aug. 120 It would be interesting to watch if female cuckoos show any disposition to ‘sit’ in the absence of eggs, or if they make any ‘clocking’ noise similar to brooding fowls.

1983 F. Sadler Romance of Fitzroy Harbour xi. 178 If the men wanted to be sarcastic, they insulted one another by suggesting that the poor fellow was so weak he couldn't pull a clocking hen off the nest.

2013 D. Sharpe Caravan of Love Introd. p. xii There is one thing I do admire about flocks of bird flying together..they often make that clocking sound.

1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland ii. 74 Clocking-Hens, are much like the Crab-catchers... They keep..in swampy wet places.

1727 Some Mod. Observ. Jamaica 18 in Whartoniana II. In the Woods and Savanahs are likewise Clocking Hens, Carrion Crows, near as big as Turkey Hens, Macaws, Parroketes, Blackbirds and Thrushes, not the same as yours.

1948 Proc. Symp. Large-scale Digital Calculating Machinery 1947 105 The pulses then proceed through an inverter tube to the clocking or synchronizing gate tube.

1977 Science 18 Mar. 1217/2 To change the time delay it is only necessary to change the time period..of the external clocking waveforms.

1998 What Hi-Fi? May 82/1 Pink also uses its own clocking system from drive to DAC, to ensure a reasonably jitter-free passage of the signal.

2001 Nucl. Instruments & Methods Physics Res. A. 466 147/2 Since the CCD readout ‘wiring’ for clocking pulses, etc. is laid out on the CCD surface, it makes devices very susceptible to radiation damage.