pocket clock

English

Noun

pocket clock (plural pocket clocks)

  1. (now chiefly historical) A small portable timepiece; a pocket watch. [from 17th c.]
    • c. 1631, John Donne, Obsequy on the Lord Harrington:
      Though as small pocket-clocks, whose every wheele / Doth each mismotion and distemper feele…
    • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XX:
      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 […].
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