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单词 watch-clock
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watch-clockn.

Obsolete.
1. (a) ? A time-piece actuated by a spring. (b) ? A clock with a dial indicating minutes and seconds. Also watch pendulum clock.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun]
clock1370
knock1502
watch-clock1592
timist1711
goer1730
tick-ticka1777
dial plate1796
hall-clock1815
tick-tock1947
the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > other types of clock
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
1592 J. Dee Autobiogr. Tracts 29 in Chetham Misc. (1851) I An excellent watch-clock,..by which clock the tyme might sensibly be measured in the seconds of an houre.
1633 T. James Strange Voy. Names Instruments sig. Qv A Watch-clocke, of sixe inches Diameter: and another lesser Watch.
1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Exod. xxxv. 32) 109 A certain artificer set a watch-clock upon a ring that Charls the Fifth wore upon his finger.
1671 J. Flamsteed Let. 10 July in Corr. (1995) I. 101 I spoke and wrote to my kinsman about a watch clock.
1671 J. Flamsteed Let. 1 Aug. in Corr. (1995) I. 103 I wrote by my Coz Willson about procureing mee a watch pendulum Clock.
2. An alarm clock. Cf. watch n. 19.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > alarm clock
watchc1440
watch-clock1605
reveille-matin1610
alarm1614
alarm clock1662
larum clock1697
weaver's larum1745
expergefactor1823
watch-alarm1875
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 360 Powerfull Neede (Arts ancient Dam & Keeper, The early watch-clock [Fr. resveille-matin] of the sloathfull sleeper).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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