"clockware" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From clock + -ware. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|clock|ware|id2=substance, kind, or use}} clock + -ware Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} clockware (uncountable)
  1. Clocks collectively. Tags: uncountable

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          "ref": "1996, Jim Fisher, Fall Guys: False Confessions and the Politics of Murder, Carbondale, Ill., Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, page 119",
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