watchmaker
[woch-mey-ker]
- a person whose occupation it is to make and repair watches.
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Origin of watchmaker
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Examples from the Web for watchmaker
Contemporary Examples
While not all 86 million maintain positions of governance or public service, the Party's machinery runs on watchmaker precision.
Paley goes on to compare the watch to an eye, arguing that if a watch implies a watchmaker, then an eye implies an eye-maker.
Historical Examples
The neighbor she respected the most was still the watchmaker.
L'AssommoirEmile Zola
This week he was claiming he used to be a watchmaker before he began to shake.
The Altar at MidnightCyril M. Kornbluth
The mysterious sprinkling of marionettes not wound up by the watchmaker.
Erik DornBen Hecht
"Oh, there's nothing in it," said the watchmaker reassuringly.
Half a HeroAnthony Hope
Mary's father, Walter Gray, was employed at a watchmaker's of repute.
Mary GrayKatharine Tynan
watchmaker
- a person who makes or mends watches
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