Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grandfather clock
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As he moved the beam, the shadow of the grandfather clock in the hall twisted and grew across the ceiling.
▪ Clock stolen: A grandfather clock worth £1,000 was stolen from a house at Kepwick, near Thirsk.
▪ No one in the hall except the grandfather clock I'd seen floating in my dream; no one came out of the sitting room.
▪ She'd heard the grandfather clock down in the hall chime every quarter-hour until three o'clock.
▪ The grandfather clock in an oak case is one of seven clocks and two barometers in the house.
▪ The muffled tick of the grandfather clock echoed in one corner.
▪ The room was silent, apart from the hollow and remorseless tick of a grandfather clock in the corner.
▪ The solemnly ticking grandfather clock by the door said two minutes to the half hour when Charles heard the Bishop approaching.
Wiktionary
grandfather clock
n. A longcase clock.
WordNet
grandfather clock
n. a pendulum clock enclosed in a tall narrow case [syn: longcase clock]
Wikipedia
Grandfather clock (disambiguation)
A grandfather clock, also known as a longcase clock, is a type of freestanding, weight-driven clock, usually six to eight feet in height. Grandfather clock may also refer to:
- " My Grandfather's Clock", a popular song first written in 1876
- Grandfather's Clock, a card game based on solitaire
- The grandfather clock engine (1885), an early petrol engine
- "Grandfather Clock" (This Will Destroy You song), a song by This Will Destroy You, from their EP Young Mountain