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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



... three o'clock of the night[41], ten or twelve elders of the city came into the encampment of our caravan, close by one of the gates of the city, where running about like madmen, they continually cried out aloud, "Mahomet the apostle of God shall rise again: O prophet of God thou shalt rise ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VII • Robert Kerr
... endeavoured to retrace her steps, but after walking a long time would often return to the spot from which she set out. She left home about ten o'clock in the forenoon, and her friends, alarmed at her long stay, called together some of their neighbours and set out to look for her, knowing that she must have lost her way in the forest. They continued their search through ...
— The Path of Duty, and Other Stories • H. S. Caswell
... asked Joyce. And Martin looked about for a Dandelion Clock, and having found one blew it all away with a single puff and ...
— Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard • Eleanor Farjeon
... The clock is ticking onward, It nears the hour of doom, And no one yet hath entered Into that ghastly room. The jailer and the sheriff, They are walking to and fro: And the hangman sits upon the steps, And smokes his pipe below. In grisly expectation The prison all is bound, ...
— The Bon Gaultier Ballads • William Edmonstoune Aytoun
... may safely be assumed that by twelve o'clock at night every sound and healthy person will be asleep. Dick Ranney gave an extra margin of half an hour, and thirty minutes after midnight made his appearance in the hotel yard. Thanks to the information given by his young messenger, Oren Trott, who, of course, did not know ...
— Walter Sherwood's Probation • Horatio Alger


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