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  • noun The art or trade of a clockmaker

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Examples

  • For reasons unrecorded by history, Harrison and Jefferys decided to fit all of Harrison's clockmaking innovations into a handheld timepiece.

    Big Time: The British Pocket Watch Jonathon Keats 2010

  • While the Val-de-Travers has so much to offer by way of absinthe history, it is also in these same Jura mountains where some of the finest clockmaking was done in the history of Europe.

    Clockwork in the Cold Heather McDougal 2008

  • While the Val-de-Travers has so much to offer by way of absinthe history, it is also in these same Jura mountains where some of the finest clockmaking was done in the history of Europe.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Heather McDougal 2008

  • Ms. SOBEL: The idea of The Longitude Symposium, covering this meeting at Harvard which was going to have all the world's experts on, really, feels like cartography, history of science, clockmaking, all the things that had gone on -- into solving the longitude problem.

    Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time 1999

  • The Clock Repair course includes much of the above, plus specialized instruction in clockmaking skills such as repivoting, drilling, brushing, and replacing teeth in a wheel.

    You’re Certifiable Joel Naftali Lee 1999

  • The Clock Repair course includes much of the above, plus specialized instruction in clockmaking skills such as repivoting, drilling, brushing, and replacing teeth in a wheel.

    You’re Certifiable Joel Naftali Lee 1999

  • For example, in the eighteenth century U.S. clockmaking was by and large a handcraft, and its products could only be afforded by the wealthy.

    Managing with Dual Strategies Derek F. Abell 1993

  • They need a clockmaking workshop, for example, for these children.

    Castro Speech at Special School Inauguration 1990

  • In addition he took up clockmaking, paper-making, and the printing of books.

    Christopher and the Clockmakers Sara Ware Bassett 1920

  • Seth Thomas, Silas Hoadley, Chauncey Jerome are names that will not soon be forgotten; Terryville and Thomaston, two clockmaking centers, testify to that.

    Christopher and the Clockmakers Sara Ware Bassett 1920

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