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Definition of settler's clock in English: settler's clocknoun Australian the noise woke me and, when I inquired, I was told that it was the settler's clock another term for kookaburra Example sentencesExamples - The bird has been not unaptly named the settler's clock.
- He stirred first in the mornings, roused by the shrieks of the settler's clock.
- At half-past four, the settler's clock is making merry with the first glimpse of daylight.
- He was awakened just before dawn by the settler's clock.
- Early literature commonly refers to the settler's clock.
- The small settler certainly did not possess a clock, and so the useful song of the kookaburra became known as the settler's clock.
- It was the loud and discordant noise of the settler's clock, as the bird is called.
- The old man, laughing, answered, 'That 'eres the settler's clock.'
- The settler's clock is a strange-looking bird of the goat-sucker tribe.
- The 'settler's clock' was the white man's name for the kookaburra.
Origin Early 19th century: from the bird's loud and discordant dawn chorus. |