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单词 german clock
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German clock
German clock n. historical spec. an early, esp. 16th- or 17th- cent., clock of elaborate construction, often incorporating automata; cf. German watch n.
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watch-clock1592
German clock1598
quarter clocka1631
wheel-clock1671
table clocka1684
month clock1712
astronomical clock1719
musical clock1721
repeater1725
Tompion1727
pulling clock1733
regulator1735
eight-day clock1741
regulator clock1750
French clock1757
repetition clock1765
day clock1766
striker1778
chiming clock1789
cuckoo-clock1789
night clock1823
telltale1827
carriage clock1828
fly-clock1830
steeple clock1830
telltale clock1832
skeleton clock1842
telegraph clock1842
star clock1850
weight-clock1850
prison clock1853
crystal clock1854
pillar scroll top clock1860
sheep's-head clock1872
presentation clock1875
pillar clock1880
stop-clock1881
Waterbury1882
calendar-clock1884
ting-tang clock1884
birdcage clock1886
sheep's head1887
perpetual calendar1892
bracket clock1894
Act of Parliament clock1899
cartel clock1899
banjo-clock1903
master clock1904
lantern clock1913
time clock1919
evolutionary clock1922
lancet clock1922
atomic clock1927
quartz clock1934
clock radio1946
real-time clock1953
organ clock1956
molecular clock1974
travelling clock2014
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iii. i. 185 A woman that is like a Iermane Cloake [sc. clock], Still a repairing: euer out of frame.
1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iv. ii, in Wks. I. 570 She takes her selfe asunder still when she goes to bed,..and about next day noone is put together againe, like a great Germane clocke . View more context for this quotation
a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) i. v. 17 Let us try To win that old Eremit thing, that, like An Image in a German clock, doth move, Not walke.
1795 Elisa Powell I. v. 53 The same pitiful trifles constantly returned, like the exact repetition of the movements in an old German clock.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 72/1 In Frederici's upright grand action..the movement is practically identical with the hammer action of a German clock.
1919 E. T. Raymond All & Sundry (1920) 262 After the fashion of those old German clocks where the little man comes out to-day and the little woman to-morrow.
2008 B. K. Frieder Chivalry & Perfect Prince v. 170 Tormented by gout and tinkering with his collection of German clocks.
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