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water clocks

water clocks is the plural of water clock.

Meaning of water clock

Noun

water clock (plural water clocks)

  1. (historical) A device for measuring time using water, typically by measuring water flowing in or out of a basin of known size at a known rate.
    • [O]ur captain, or the juragan, gives the course, guided partly by the compass and partly by the direction of the wind, and a watch of two or three on the poop look after the trimming of the sails and call out the hours by the water-clock. This is a very ingenious contrivance, which measures time...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 169
    Synonyms:
    clepsydra

Questions about water clocks

What is water clocks the plural of?
Water clocks is the plural of water clock.

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