"time-piece" meaning in English

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          "text": "\"I cannot understand the cause of Sir George Kingston's not calling this morning; he knows that I am returned to town:\" and a flush of haughty anger coloured Lady Marchmont's brow; but the colour deepened when she looked at the time-piece, and had been expecting him for hours.",
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          "ref": "1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter IX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 155:",
          "text": "“[…] I shall be glad when I can get my watch mended, it loses so,” said Martin, pulling out an old silver article with a steel chain,—a time-piece, like the rest of the world, deceptive;[…]",
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          "text": "\"I cannot understand the cause of Sir George Kingston's not calling this morning; he knows that I am returned to town:\" and a flush of haughty anger coloured Lady Marchmont's brow; but the colour deepened when she looked at the time-piece, and had been expecting him for hours.",
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          "text": "“[…] I shall be glad when I can get my watch mended, it loses so,” said Martin, pulling out an old silver article with a steel chain,—a time-piece, like the rest of the world, deceptive;[…]",
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