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pocket clock

pocket clock noun: a small portable timepiece; a pocket watch.

Noun

pocket clock (plural pocket clocks)

  1. (historical) A small portable timepiece; a pocket watch.
    • Though as small pocket-clocks, whose every wheele / Doth each mismotion and distemper feele…c. 1631, John Donne, Obsequy on the Lord Harrington
    • We know there may be as much curiosity of contrivance, and excellency of form in a very small Pocket-clock, that takes up not an Inch square of room, as there may be in a Church-clock that fills a whole room […].1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XX

Forms of pocket clock

pluralpocket clocks

Questions about pocket clock

What does pocket clock mean?
Pocket clock means a small portable timepiece; a pocket watch.
What part of speech is pocket clock?
Pocket clock is a noun.
What is the plural of pocket clock?
The plural of pocket clock is pocket clocks.

Words near pocket clock in the dictionary

  1. pocket cartoonists
  2. pocket cartoons
  3. pocket CD
  4. pocket CDs
  5. pocket change
  6. pocket clock
  7. pocket clocks
  8. pocket computer
  9. pocket computers
  10. Pocket Cube
  11. Pocket Cubes

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