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clockware

clockware noun: clocks collectively.

Noun

clockware (uncountable)

  1. Clocks collectively.
    • Thus we find clockware, imitation jewellery, silk thread works of art and dried fruits enumerated as being supplied largely from the Continent to meet the Indian bazaar demands.1895 January 4, “Finance and Trade”, in The Age, number 12,434, Melbourne, Vic., page 4, column 2
    • Both incoming liners had large quantities of Christmas goods, such as laces and linens, clockware, nuts and grapes.1909 December 10, “Cargoes Worth Millions; Brisk Morning Business in Shipping; Three Ocean Liners Arrive and Two Depart; […]”, in Boston Evening Transcript, eightieth year, number 288, page 1

Examples of clockware in a sentence

  • Anyway, the little alarm clock has everything over all other forms and fashions and designs in clockware right at this time.1916 August 9, “When the Alarm Clock Goes Ting-a-ling in the Morning”, in The Evening Times, volume I, number 45, Tulsa, Okla.; Sand...
  • In his spare time he also repairs 19th- and 20th century clockware.1980 February, Polish Perspectives, volume XXIII, number 2, →ISSN, page 72, column 2:
  • We sell other merchandise too—clockware, candles, clip-on lights, and things like that.1996, Jim Fisher, Fall Guys: False Confessions and the Politics of Murder, Carbondale, Ill.; Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois...

Origin of clockware

From clock + -ware.

Questions about clockware

What does clockware mean?
Clockware means clocks collectively.
How do you use clockware in a sentence?
Anyway, the little alarm clock has everything over all other forms and fashions and designs in clockware right at this time.
What part of speech is clockware?
Clockware is a noun.

Words near clockware in the dictionary

  1. clocktowers
  2. clockvine
  3. clockvines
  4. clockw.
  5. clockward
  6. clockware
  7. clockwatch
  8. clockwatched
  9. clockwatcher
  10. clockwatchers
  11. clockwatches

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