bracket clock

noun

1. a small clock designed to be placed on a bracket or shelf.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bracket clock¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

The old bracket clock we have just sent home, you will recall, played seven different tunes.

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There was silence for a moment or two, during which the heavy bracket clock over the door struck the first hour after midnight.

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This also is a bracket clock with chains supporting the weights.

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Fig. 70 is a bracket clock in marquetry case made by John Martin, of London, in the seventeenth century.

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But strive how he might he could hear nothing but the great bracket-clock on the wall ticking monotonously.

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