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Definition of Clockers
1. clocker [n] - See also: clocker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clockers
Literary usage of Clockers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "Marse Henry": An Autobiography by Henry Watterson (1919)
"... they go after dinner for their coffee and what not; a tea-room for the
five-o'clockers; and except in excessive weather scarcely any motion at all. ..."
2. How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly (1921)
"Over the flat, bleak land of Leon the clockers a jour are a glory. With passion
the Breton admired his landmarks. As he sailed home from long months in the ..."
3. Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society by Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa (1904)
"... when twenty-five chiefs of the Six Nations were entertained, and, with a
circumspection that the Clover Club, the Five O'clockers, or the Fellowship ..."
4. My Adventures with Your Money by George Graham Rice (1913)
"... claimed that Maxim & Gay had ruined the betting odds for him and that but for
the vigilance of our clockers his winnings would have been twice as large. ..."
5. At the Serbian Front in Macedonia by Edward Percy Stebbing (1917)
"... 6 am, breakfast 6.30 am (think of that, you 9-o'clockers), dinner 12, tea 3.30
pm, supper 7 pm, and lights out at 9 pm But many must have often looked ..."
6. Correctional Psychology: Practice, Programming, and Administrationby Barbara K. Schwartz by Barbara K. Schwartz (2003)
"Law and Human Behavior, 21, 635—659. Price, R. (1992). clockers. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin. Principal Day shot to death in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. ..."
7. Judicial and Testamentary Business of the Provincial Court by Maryland, Maryland Provincial Court, Provincial Court (1891)
"... And this Depon' asking him whether he this Dep' Should also mark the Said
other hogshead when it was filled with his the Said clockers mark he answered ..."
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