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black clocks

black clocks is the plural of black clock.

Meaning of black clock

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

Questions about black clocks

What is black clocks the plural of?
Black clocks is the plural of black clock.

Words near black clocks in the dictionary

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

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