pocket clock

noun

A small portable timepiece; a pocket watch.

First used 17th c.
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Meanings

nounpocket clock (plural pocket clocks)

plural pocket clocks

  1. historicalA small portable timepiece; a pocket watch.First known use 17th c.

    Though as small pocket-clocks, whose every wheele / Doth each mismotion and distemper feele…

    c. 1631, John Donne, Obsequy on the Lord Harrington
    1 more example

    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
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