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A mouse runs up one in "Hickory Dickory Dock"
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clock
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Word definitions for clock in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to time by the clock," 1883, from clock (n.1). The slang sense of "hit, sock" is 1941, originally Australian, probably from earlier slang clock (n.) "face" (1923). Related: Clocked ; clocking .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clock \Clock\, v. t. & i. To call, as a hen. See Cluck . [R.]
Usage examples of clock.
The tolling of a distant clock absently spoke the midnight hour, but Cassandra was wide awake as she dreamed, consumed by better days.
His field of vision contracted until it embraced only the clock and the accelerometer, fifteen g, and four hundred and eighty seconds to go.
In despair, she saw the clock tick down to zero, watching as Rennell resisted acknowledging his incapacity.
I observed with pleasure that the clock in the alcove had an alarum, for I was beginning, in spite of love, to be easily influenced by the power of sleep.
He gave up at last, albeit not before I had traveled with him to several of the Twelve Cities where he had contracts to install water clocks.
O clock and took a hearty alfresco breakfast with his officers under the shade of a spread tarpaulin and then, from the rear seat of the Rolls, he gave a clenched fist cavalry order to advance.
Work proceeded round the clock on several Federation ships, but the uniformly open horizon absorbed sound better than anechoic paneling.
When ah finish ah clocks this spider in the bath so ah blasts the cunt wi baith taps, flushin the fucker away, before gaun in tae the bedroom next door.
At last the clock roused me from my reverie, and I began to feel restless that no one came to give me anything to eat or to bring me a bed whereon to sleep.
One of the streets leading into it is called Kanzlerstrasse, a narrow, cobbled affair with a bierhaus on the corner, under a clock.
Ferracini stopped to buy a paper at a curbside kiosk, while Cassidy crossed the street and wandered around the square, stopping finally in a doorway at the corner opposite the bierhaus with the clock over its entrance as Lindemann had described.
Now there were either seats slung from above, in which one felt much like a bag of sugar, or chairs bolted to a base plate on springs: in both these cases the weight was quickly indicated by a pointer which swung round a gigantic clock face.
The clock in the drugstore where the buses stopped said there were ten minutes to go.
By the aid of these we then busied our souls in dreams - reading, writing, or conversing, until warned by the clock of the advent of the true Darkness.
But he did ask me to keep my eyes peeled for a cheapish long-case clock.