carriage clock

noun

1. a portable clock, usually in a rectangular case with a handle on the top, of a type originally used by travellers

Example Sentences

She seized the little gold carriage clock and shook it in her nervous fingers as if that would put the matter right.

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It is a small, light compact contrivance driven by a kind of carriage clock.

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He brought them with the carriage clock and my bag, but, of course, they were not mine.

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The little carriage clock which she kept in her bedroom struck eleven, then twelve.

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I looked at the carriage-clock and found that we had been already an hour and a quarter on our journey.

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