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单词 waterbury
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Waterburyn.

Brit. /ˈwɔːtəb(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈwɔdərˌbɛri/, /ˈwɑdərˌbɛri/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Waterbury.
Etymology: < Waterbury, the name of a town in Connecticut, U.S.A. where the Waterbury Clock Company was based.
I. Compounds.
1. attributive. Designating a low-priced watch or clock of a type manufactured by the Waterbury Clock Company between the 1850s and 1940s.
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1853 Merry's Museum 25 93/1 I would have given a first-rate Waterbury clock, with an alarm, and a landscape extra, to have somebody near by.
1888 R. Kipling Watches of Night in Plain Tales from Hills 73 Platte,..being poor, had a Waterbury watch and a plain leather guard.
1908 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 117. 348/1 Our new eight-day Waterbury Clock.
c1909 D. H. Lawrence Collier's Friday Night (1934) iii. 76 He..takes a Waterbury watch with a brass chain from the wall beside the book-case.
1963 C. Mackenzie My Life & Times II. 42 I kept surreptitiously looking at my ten-and-sixpenny Waterbury watch.
2004 Investor's Business Daily (Nexis) 30 Mar. a3 To convey their practicality and affordability, he renamed the Waterbury watch the ‘Universal’.
II. Simple uses.
2. A Waterbury watch or clock. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > other types of clock
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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
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cartel clock1899
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master clock1904
lantern clock1913
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evolutionary clock1922
lancet clock1922
atomic clock1927
quartz clock1934
clock radio1946
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molecular clock1974
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1882 Clock & Watch Land in Cent. Mag. Aug. 11 Persons who have looked at a Waterbury, without taking the trouble to own and use one, have smiled in a superior way at the long winding required.
1893 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ In Vine Country vi. 105 My cousin with some trouble disinterred the Waterbury.
1914 Rep. N.Y. Public Service Comm., 1st District I. 558 The clock is a Waterbury, eight day, key wind, jewelled balance.
1920 F. E. Green Hist. Eng. Agric. Labourer iv. 93 He turned up..on Sunday with a fashionable billycock, a walking stick and a Waterbury.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 290 O Shee who then (4.32 m.p.,..according to all three doctors waterburies) [etc.].
2004 K. Husfloen Antique Trader Answers 178 It is about 7' tall, is a Waterbury and it seems to keep perfect time.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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