clockmaker
clockmaker
Definition
clock·maker (-māk′ər)
noun
a maker or repairer of clocks
clockmaker
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- become: The maker, Thomas Tompion, became clockmaker to King Charles II.
Adjective modifier
- local: At 10.45 a.m. the workhouse clock stopped, a local clockmaker Mr. Andrew climbed the tower to repair it.
- German: The late Sidney Horstmann OBE, who was the son of a German clockmaker, originally formed the company in 1913.
- old: Hand crafted by the oldest clockmakers in England, the Windsor will be an heirloom that will be valued by every generation.
- English: John Harrison, one of the most famous of English clockmakers, was born in 1693 near Pontefract in Yorkshire.
- most: Early clocks tended to be of iron, but most clockmakers went on to use brass.
Browse dictionary entries near clockmaker
- clocklike
- clocking pulse
- clocked
- clock radio
- clock
- cloche
- clochard
- clobber
- cloakroom
- cloak-and-dagger
- clockwise
- clockwork
- clod
- cloddish
- cloddishly
- cloddishness
- cloddy
- clodhopper
- clodhoppers
- clodpole
