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black clock

black clock noun: the black beetle.

Noun

black clock (plural black clocks)

  1. (Yorkshire) the black beetle.
    • BLACK CLOCKS, 1, blackbeetles. "There's noa end o' black clocks i' t' hoil."1865, William Stott Banks, A List of Provincial Words in use at Wakefield in Yorkshire, Wakefield: J.R.Smith, page 8

Forms of black clock

pluralblack clocks

Questions about black clock

What does black clock mean?
Black clock means the black beetle.
What part of speech is black clock?
Black clock is a noun.
What is the plural of black clock?
The plural of black clock is black clocks.

Words near black clock in the dictionary

  1. black Christmases
  2. black cicadabird
  3. black clam
  4. black clams
  5. black clergy
  6. black clock
  7. black clocks
  8. black coal
  9. black coals
  10. black cock
  11. black cockatoo

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