pocket clock

English

pocket clock (plural pocket clocks)

(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, 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 […].

单词	pocket clock
释义	pocket clock English Noun pocket clock (plural pocket clocks) (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, 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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