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waterclock

waterclock is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of waterclock

pluralwaterclocks

Origin of waterclock

From water + clock.

Questions about waterclock

What is waterclock the alternative spelling of?
Waterclock is the alternative spelling of water clock.

Words near waterclock in the dictionary

  1. watercarrier
  2. watercarriers
  3. watercise
  4. watercleft
  5. waterclefts
  6. waterclock
  7. waterclocks
  8. watercloset
  9. waterclosets
  10. watercoaster
  11. watercoasters

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