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Clock   /klɑk/   Listen
Clock

noun
1.
A timepiece that shows the time of day.
verb
1.
Measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time.  Synonym: time.



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"Clock" Quotes from Famous Books



... occasioned by a defect in his nervous system, that inexplicable part of our frame, appears highly probable. He told Mr. Paradise[193] that he was sometimes so languid and inefficient, that he could not distinguish the hour upon the town-clock. ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell
... four o'clock in the morning, as we told him we wished to take the train at that hour back to Camp McDonald, which is located at a place called Big Shanty, eight miles north of Marietta, and is also a breakfast station. Andrews had gone to another hotel, and warned the members of the party there to be in ...
— Daring and Suffering: - A History of the Great Railroad Adventure • William Pittenger
... stranger, in a deep tone. "Can you not see the prison clock through the bars of your cell door? Look; it lacks yet an hour ...
— The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales • Francis A. Durivage
... enemy's whole line of intrenchments and batteries will be attacked in front, and at the same time turned, early in the day to-morrow, probably before ten o'clock A.M. The second (Twiggs's) division of regulars is already advanced within easy turning distance toward the enemy's line. That division has instructions to move forward before daylight to-morrow and take up position ...
— General Scott • General Marcus J. Wright
... attended the morning penitence at six o'clock, in the church of San Francisco; the hardest part of which was their having to kneel for about ten minutes with their arms extended in the form of a cross, uttering groans; a most painful position for any length of time. It is a profane thought, but I dare ...
— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon De La Barca


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