maintaining power
Watchmaking and Clockmaking
noun
A mechanism for keeping a watch or clock going while it is being wound.
Origin
Mid 18th century; earliest use found in Alexander Cumming (d. 1814), watchmaker and mechanician.
- alluviate
- alluviated
- alluviation
- alluvion
- alluvious
- alluvium
- allvar
- all-volunteer
- all-weather
- all-welded
- (all) well and good
- all wet
- all-wheel
- all-wheel drive
- allwhere
- all-whiteness
- All Whites
- all-wielding
- all-wing
- all-wise
- all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)
- ally
- -ally
- all-year
- all-year round