clock jack
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of clock jack
1925–30; earlier jack of the clock-(house) , jackaclock; jack 1
Example Sentences
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At one o'clock Jack, appearing at the door, immediately recognized the situation.
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Snowfoot's week was up the next forenoon; and at about ten o'clock Jack, accompanied by Lion, and carrying a double-barrelled fowling-piece, with which he had shot a brace of prairie hens by the way, walked into the Betterson door-yard.
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"I thought you would have been in by two o'clock, Jack," his mother said reproachfully, "so as to see Lily before she went off to school again."
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By eight o'clock Jack was in bed, and having acquired the fisherman's habit of waking at any hour he chose, he was at the door when Bill Corbett and his brother Joe came along.
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There was the clock jack, two splendid specimens of which are illustrated in Fig.
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