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clock-jobber

clock-jobber noun: a person who repairs and maintains clocks.

Noun

clock-jobber (plural clock-jobbers)

  1. (obsolete) A person who repairs and maintains clocks.
    • The escapement used in French Drum Clocks is a continual source of trouble to English clock jobbers.1881, Frederick James Britten, The Watch and Clockmakers’ Handbook, 4th edition, London: W. Kent & Co., page 105
    • I am pretty well aware of the number of bunglers, tinkers, and clock-jobbers that have crept into the trade—one of the latter, I am informed, became an organ-builder about five years ago, and by the help of a friendly organist got some work […]1888, The English Mechanic and World of Science, No. 1,199, 16 March, 1888, letter to the editor headed “Organ Matters,” signed Wm. Robinson, p. 59
    Synonyms:
    horologist

Examples of clock-jobber in a sentence

  • Hall was screwing up her courage to go in and ask her visitor if he would take some tea, Teddy Henfrey, the clock-jobber, came into the bar.1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 2”, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers...
  • Now, something has gone wrong with its strike and I don't like to trust it to a common clock-jobber.1936, R. Austin Freeman, chapter 19, in The Penrose Mystery:

Synonyms of clock-jobber

Forms of clock-jobber

pluralclock-jobbers

Questions about clock-jobber

What does clock-jobber mean?
Clock-jobber means a person who repairs and maintains clocks.
How do you use clock-jobber in a sentence?
Hall was screwing up her courage to go in and ask her visitor if he would take some tea, Teddy Henfrey, the clock-jobber, came into the bar.
What part of speech is clock-jobber?
Clock-jobber is a noun.
What is the plural of clock-jobber?
The plural of clock-jobber is clock-jobbers.

Words near clock-jobber in the dictionary

  1. clock watchers
  2. clock wipe
  3. clock wipes
  4. clock-face timetable
  5. clock-face timetables
  6. clock-jobber
  7. clock-jobbers
  8. clock-watch
  9. clock-watched
  10. clock-watcher
  11. clock-watchers

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