pigeon clock

noun

A timing device used to officially record the exact time a pigeon returns to its loft in a race.

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nounpigeon clock (plural pigeon clocks)

plural pigeon clocks

  1. A timing device used to officially record the exact time a pigeon returns to its loft in a race.

    When Corker trapped in Monte put her ring in the hatch of the pigeon clock[.]

    1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 120
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