Meanings
nounblack clock (plural black clocks)
plural black clocks
- Yorkshirethe black beetle.
BLACK CLOCKS, 1, blackbeetles. "There's noa end o' black clocks i' t' hoil."
1865, William Stott Banks, A List of Provincial Words in use at Wakefield in Yorkshire, Wakefield: J.R.Smith, page 8
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