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clocksprings
n. (plural of clockspring English)
Usage examples of "clocksprings".
But above both fear and sensible thoughts was a vast red rage that made him want to leap across the table and choke this tick‑tuck man until clocksprings fell out of his ears.
She soon realized that, beneath their calm surfaces, hour by hour they wound tighter and tighter, like clocksprings being forced to the breaking point.
Star charts, drawn from legend, and etchings of galaxies that unwound like clocksprings, filled the otherwise cold and gleaming, featureless walls.