Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who makes clocks.
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Examples
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More suspense film than genre shocker, the story finds extravagant riches in the lower depths of Mexico City, where a nuclear clan of a mother, two sons and a daughter experiences a meltdown when its clock-maker patriarch drops dead on the street — and disgorges an undigested finger on the autopsy table.
Chewing on Love and Loss Steve Dollar 2011
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Arkwright had no background in textiles and appears to have consulted a clock-maker about the mechanisms he needed, and he found a ready and skilled partner in Jedediah Strutt.
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I once stood watch for an hour over a mid-20th-century dentist chair, curvilinear and powder blue, while I waited for Roger Wood, the mad clock-maker, to show up and take it away for conversion into clocks.
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For a generation reared on Oprah, trained to emote and accustomed to affirmation, the deistic notion of clock-maker God uninvolved and really uninterested in the world of creation is at odds with the prevailing piety that conceives of Jesus as your friend.
Jeffrey Robbins: Pining for the Days of Honest Hypocrisy 2008
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When he was seen coming out of church with the straps of his breeches tied into the button-holes, devout women would redeem the buckles from the clock-maker and jeweler of the town and return them to their pastor with a lecture.
Ursula 2006
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God is the clock-maker, the puppeteer, the author.
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God is the clock-maker, the puppeteer, the author.
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"There is the clock-maker, for instance, he never gets any extra pay, and yet every day he works overtime."
The New Pun Book Thomas A. Brown
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He was sent by his parents to the College of Chinon, whence he entered the École des Arts et Metiers, and afterward went to Paris to work in the shop of a clock-maker.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Various
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Chauncey pondered long over this rumor, for it had long been his dream to become a great clock-maker.
The True Citizen, How to Become One W. F. Markwick
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