See clock-jobber on Wiktionary
{ "forms": [ { "form": "clock-jobbers", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "clock-jobber (plural clock-jobbers)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "People", "orig": "en:People", "parents": [ "Human", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1881, Frederick James Britten, The Watch and Clockmakers’ Handbook, 4th edition, London: W. Kent & Co., page 105:", "text": "The escapement used in French Drum Clocks is a continual source of trouble to English clock jobbers.", "type": "quote" }, { "text": "1888, The English Mechanic and World of Science, No. 1,199, 16 March, 1888, letter to the editor headed “Organ Matters,” signed Wm. Robinson, p. 59,\nI am pretty well aware of the number of bunglers, tinkers, and clock-jobbers that have crept into the trade—one of the latter, I am informed, became an organ-builder about five years ago, and by the help of a friendly organist got some work […]" }, { "ref": "1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 2”, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:", "text": "At four o’clock, when it was fairly dark and Mrs. Hall was screwing up her courage to go in and ask her visitor if he would take some tea, Teddy Henfrey, the clock-jobber, came into the bar.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1936, R. Austin Freeman, chapter 19, in The Penrose Mystery:", "text": "I've got a fine old bracket clock—belonged to my grandfather; made for him by Earnshaw, and I set considerable store by it. Now, something has gone wrong with its strike and I don't like to trust it to a common clock-jobber.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A person who repairs and maintains clocks." ], "id": "en-clock-jobber-en-noun-vj3o0rK9", "links": [ [ "repair", "repair" ], [ "maintain", "maintain" ], [ "clock", "clock" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) A person who repairs and maintains clocks." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "horologist" } ], "tags": [ "obsolete" ] } ], "word": "clock-jobber" }
{ "forms": [ { "form": "clock-jobbers", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "clock-jobber (plural clock-jobbers)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms with obsolete senses", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned", "en:People" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1881, Frederick James Britten, The Watch and Clockmakers’ Handbook, 4th edition, London: W. Kent & Co., page 105:", "text": "The escapement used in French Drum Clocks is a continual source of trouble to English clock jobbers.", "type": "quote" }, { "text": "1888, The English Mechanic and World of Science, No. 1,199, 16 March, 1888, letter to the editor headed “Organ Matters,” signed Wm. Robinson, p. 59,\nI am pretty well aware of the number of bunglers, tinkers, and clock-jobbers that have crept into the trade—one of the latter, I am informed, became an organ-builder about five years ago, and by the help of a friendly organist got some work […]" }, { "ref": "1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 2”, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:", "text": "At four o’clock, when it was fairly dark and Mrs. Hall was screwing up her courage to go in and ask her visitor if he would take some tea, Teddy Henfrey, the clock-jobber, came into the bar.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1936, R. Austin Freeman, chapter 19, in The Penrose Mystery:", "text": "I've got a fine old bracket clock—belonged to my grandfather; made for him by Earnshaw, and I set considerable store by it. Now, something has gone wrong with its strike and I don't like to trust it to a common clock-jobber.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A person who repairs and maintains clocks." ], "links": [ [ "repair", "repair" ], [ "maintain", "maintain" ], [ "clock", "clock" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) A person who repairs and maintains clocks." ], "tags": [ "obsolete" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "horologist" } ], "word": "clock-jobber" }
Download raw JSONL data for clock-jobber meaning in All languages combined (2.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.