"pocket clock" meaning in All languages combined

See pocket clock on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: pocket clocks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pocket clock (plural pocket clocks)
  1. (now chiefly historical) A small portable timepiece; a pocket watch. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-pocket_clock-en-noun-xyoqtSX3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "c. 1631, John Donne, Obsequy on the Lord Harrington:",
          "text": "Though as small pocket-clocks, whose every wheele / Doth each mismotion and distemper feele…",
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        {
          "ref": "1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XX:",
          "text": "We know there may be as much curiosity of contrivance, and excellency of form in a very small Pocket-clock, that takes up not an Inch square of room, as there may be in a Church-clock that fills a whole room […].",
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        "A small portable timepiece; a pocket watch."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now chiefly historical) A small portable timepiece; a pocket watch."
      ],
      "tags": [
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    }
  ],
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        "(now chiefly historical) A small portable timepiece; a pocket watch."
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