Definition of Clockworks

1. Noun. (plural of clockwork) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clockworks

1. clockwork [n] - See also: clockwork

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clockworks

clockpunk
clocks
clocksmith
clocksucker
clocktower
clocktowers
clockward
clockwise
clockwise rotation
clockwork
clockwork orange
clockwork oranges
clockwork universe
clockwork universes
clockworklike
clockworks (current term)
clockworky
clocortolone
clod
clodded
cloddier
cloddiest
clodding
cloddish
cloddishness
cloddishnesses
cloddy
clodhopper
clodhoppers
clodhopping

Literary usage of Clockworks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Berlin-Zossen Electric Railway Tests of 1903: A Report of the Test Runs by Louis Bell (1905)
"The clockworks formerly used for this purpose, making a contact every ten ... The result was that the three clockworks installed in the two cars and at the ..."

2. Journal (1882)
"In such a case the plugs are left in S, and the clockworks stopped with the back levers depressed. The signals can then be translated by simply moving the ..."

3. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1874)
"This method has been used in many clockworks, but it requires great accuracy in the size of the links of the chains, otherwise slight jars are produced when ..."

4. Life and Letters of Samuel Holden Parsons: Major-general in the Continental by Charles Samuel Hall (1905)
"Within it were clockworks which could be set to spring ... The moment the magazine was cast off from the boat, the clockworks started, and the navigator, ..."

5. The Nervous System of the Child: Its Growth and Health in Education by Francis Warner (1900)
"... the processes of thinking can go on in the brain without being expressed.1 The hands of a clock indicate the time as we see them move; the clockworks ..."

6. Scientific & Technical Papers of Werner Von Siemens by Werner von Siemens (1895)
"If the clockworks went uniformly, the pointers or printers must always rest over the same letter if they had similar positions before being started. ..."

7. Scientific & Technical Papers of Werner Von Siemens by Werner von Siemens (1895)
"By an electric current which traversed the telegraph wires, these clockworks were simultaneously released and again stopped by breaking the current. ..."

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