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  1. noun An instrument other than a watch for measuring or indicating time, especially a mechanical or electronic device having a numbered dial and moving hands or a digital display.
  2. noun A time clock.
  3. noun A source of regularly occurring pulses used to measure the passage of time, as in a computer.
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  • To say now that George Bush remains drunk round the clock is alright he is leaving it does not matter if he has created a huge economic mess for the USA. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • At the end of any stage except Bosses, touch the flag when the last two digits of the clock are the same (for example, 311, 222, 099, 111). —  TotalVideoGames.com
  • (Until Oct 5th when my clock will be an hour behind when Adelaide goes to DST) —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • The dominating visual feature of the clock is a sculpture of a grim-looking, devouring, metal insect similar to a grasshopper or locust. —  My[confined]Space
  • The face of the clock is an actual cut out from a motherboard of a computer. —  OhGizmo!
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  1. Middle English clokke, from Old North French cloque, bell, or from Middle Dutch clocke, bell, clock, both from Medieval Latin clocca, of imitative origin.
  2. Perhaps from clock1, bell (obsolete), from its original bell-shaped appearance.

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  1. from Middle English clokken, from Anglo-Saxon cloccian, cluck: see cluck, which is the usual form.
  2. from Middle English clock, clok, clokke, a clock, = Dutch klok, a clock, = Low German klok, a clock, = Old High German glocka, Middle High German G. glocke, a clock, a bell, = Danish klokke, a clock, a bell, = Swedish klocka, a clock, a bell, = Icelandic klukka, a bell (cf. Anglo-Saxon (once) clucge, a bell), from Middle Latin clocca, cloca (also glocca, glogga), a bell, later F. cloche, a bell (Middle Latin also a cloak, later ult. English cloak, etc., q. v.). The orig. sense is ‘bell,’ a bell being orig. and still usually a necessary attachment of the clock, and the two words, in many cases, being practically synonymous. Prob. of Celtic origin: Irish Gaelic clog, Gaelic also clag, a bell, a clock, = Welsh cloch = Cornish cloch = Manx clagg, a bell; from the verb representing by Irish clog-aim, older clag-aim = Gaelic clog, clag, ring, sound as a bell. Cf. Welsh cleca, clack, etc., with numerous derivatives. If imitative, there is a certain connection with English clock and cluck.
  3. from clock, n.
  4. First instance prob. in Palsgrave (adjective d. 1530); origin unknown. Perhaps orig. applied to a bell-shaped ornament or flower: see clock.
  5. English dial. and Scots, of obscure origin, perhaps orig. imitative (cf. click-beetle and clock). Cf. Old High German chuleich, glossed scarabæus; Scots golach, goloch, a beetle.
  6. Middle English clokken, from Old French (Picard) cloquer, assibilated clocher, clochier (cf. English closh), from Latin claudicare. limp, from claudus, lame, limping: see claudicate, claudicant.
 

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