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- noun Plural form of
pocketwatch .
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Examples
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Street clocks are a vestige of an earlier era where wristwatches and pocketwatches were a luxury, not something everyone has or can acquire for a few dollars.
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These days the damned things are less like fine-geared pocketwatches and more like TARDISes -- full of mysterious clankings and familiar spirits.
won't make trouble. don't need no fuss. but i'm wounded, old, and i'm treacherous.
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The placemat-sized landscape is populated with drooping pocketwatches that suggest the dreamy irrelevance of time.
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Lots of hard to find items and reproductions ranging from chemises, to jewelry, to shoes (!!!), military badges, pocketwatches, hats, spats, the list goes on and on ...
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Now my URL seems to be pasted to the floppy disk and everything looks like cyber postmarked Salvador Dali pocketwatches.
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Now my URL seems to be pasted to the floppy disk and everything looks like cyber postmarked Salvador Dali pocketwatches.
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The railwaymen consulted pocketwatches and nodded.
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For decades, residents of U.S. cities would synchronize their pocketwatches using a giant globe that would descend from a pole in a public space to mark the exact hour.
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The weaving of tapestry, oil painting, the art of painting on glass, even pocketwatches and sun-dials were, as
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The weaving of tapestry, oil painting, the art of painting on glass, even pocketwatches and sun-dials were, as
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