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  • noun Plural form of clockmaker.

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Examples

  • Nevertheless, the clockmakers were a stern, tyrannical lot.

    Christopher and the Clockmakers Sara Ware Bassett 1920

  • JOHNSON: Ninety percent of the previous generation of clockmakers, the skill level, the high skill level ones, have not had the opportunity to have somebody come up behind them and stick with it.

    CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2009 2009

  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ninety percent of the previous generation of clockmakers, the skill level, the high skill level ones, have not had an opportunity to have somebody come up behind them and stick with it.

    CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2009 2009

  • Soon all the major U.S. clockmakers were making small alarm clocks, and the German clockmakers followed suit.

    Alarming developments Edward Willett 2007

  • RYAN: Ninety percent of the previous generation of clockmakers, the skill level, the high skill level ones, have not had an opportunity to have somebody come up behind them and stick with it.

    CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2009 2009

  • Though many were made in Europe, eventually clockmakers in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou learned to make timepieces that were equally impressive.

    An Imperial Journey 2009

  • Soon all the major U.S. clockmakers were making small alarm clocks, and the German clockmakers followed suit.

    Archive 2006-12-31 Edward Willett 2006

  • They developed because of the work of artisans, like glassmakers, jewelers and clockmakers, along with some of the most brilliant scientific minds over the centuries.

    Boing Boing: April 2, 2006 - April 8, 2006 Archives 2006

  • Needless to say, clockmakers and other serious types don't jump to belief in a boy's angel stories, so off he goes alone after a falling out.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Blue Tyson 2008

  • Beaumarchais, or a Diderot, people must make up their minds to it, and accept the fact that great men had upholsterers and clockmakers and cutlers for their fathers.

    Two Poets 2007

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