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  • "English term for mechanical figures, often a pair of armored knights, which strike a bell with battle-axes to indicate the time."

    April 7, 2008

  • Wow. This is... wow. *in love* Jacquermarts, where have you been all my life?!

    April 7, 2008

  • Neat! On the list it goes. :-D

    April 7, 2008

  • Curious! A kinda gladiatorial cuckoo-clock.

    April 7, 2008

  • Jacquermarts, also known as clock jacks, were used on striking clocks which regularly tolled on the hour or other unit of time by striking a bell or gong.

    Clocks that used an animated device to sound the time were known as automaton clocks, of which the cuckoo clock is a well known type.

    April 7, 2008

  • Good stuff palooka.

    April 7, 2008

  • reesetee, is this on your "It Has a Name??" list?

    April 8, 2008

  • That's odd. I specifically added it last night and it's not there now. I think we have Wordie gremlins.

    *adding it again*

    April 8, 2008