Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One versed in horology; a writer on horology.
  • noun A maker or vender of clocks and watches.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A maker or vender of clocks and watches; one skilled in horology.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A maker or seller of clocks and watches.
  • noun One skilled in horology.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who makes or repairs watches

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Examples

  • At the top of the entry stairs stands a massive gilt astronomer's clock made by the great French horologer Detouche for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1855.

    The Journe Identity Joshua Levine 2010

  • David Ramsay, watchmaker and horologer to James I., was a real person, though the author has taken the liberty of pressing him into the service of fiction.

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • We mention these things at the mair length, because we would have you all to know, that it is not without due consideration of the circumstances of all parties, that we design, in a small and private way, to honour with our own royal presence the marriage of Lord Glenvarloch with Margaret Ramsay, daughter and heiress of David Ramsay, our horologer, and a cadet only thrice removed from the ancient house of Dalwolsey.

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • As to this nonpareil of lovely flesh and blood, her name was Lucy Mainspring, the daughter of a horologer, sir, -- a watchmaker -- _vulgo_ so called -- and though fattish, she was very fair -- fair! by Jupiter, (craving your honour's pardon for swearing,) she fairly made me give all other thoughts the cut, and twisted the passions of my heart with the red-hot torturing irons of love.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828 Various

  • A French horologer moved to Switzerland, carrying his trade with him, and as a result there soon grew up in Geneva a guild of workmen not to be outranked.

    Christopher and the Clockmakers Sara Ware Bassett 1920

  • The Doctor referred him to Mr. George Graham, the distinguished horologer, inventor of the dead-beat escapement and the mercurial pendulum.

    Men of Invention and Industry Samuel Smiles 1858

  • She may do very well for skippers 'wives, chandlers' daughters, and such like; but nobody shall wait on pretty Mistress Margaret, the daughter of his most Sacred Majesty's horologer, excepting and saving myself.

    The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

  • David Ramsay, watchmaker and horologer to James I., was a real person, though the author has taken the liberty of pressing him into the service of fiction.

    The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

  • Ramsay, daughter and heiress of David Ramsay, our horologer, and a cadet only thrice removed from the ancient house of Dalwolsey.

    The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

  • She may do very well for skippers’ wives, chandlers’ daughters, and such like; but nobody shall wait on pretty Mistress Margaret, the daughter of his most Sacred Majesty’s horologer, excepting and saving myself.

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

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