Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The casing for the mechanism of a watch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The outer case for a watch.
- noun Same as
watch-pocket . - noun A sentry-box.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
casing that holds themechanism of awatch
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Examples
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Same Old Town, Alexandria VA where (D) Gary Condit got caught leaving his watchcase in a dumpster.
Poll: Hillary Up By 12 In Pennsylvania, Obama Catching Up 2009
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The inside of a watchcase makes a sufficient mirror, and I make a cup from a kalo leaf.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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Major Miller possessed a large watch that was made, he touchingly claimed, of East Indian gold, yet it was a gold stranger than any Sharpe had ever seen for the outside of the watchcase was rusted orange and its insides tarnished black.
Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992
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Major Miller possessed a large watch that was made, he touchingly claimed, of East Indian gold, yet it was a gold stranger than any Sharpe had ever seen for the outside of the watchcase was rusted orange and its insides tarnished black.
Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992
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It was now the work of but a minute to attach one of the wires that led from the watchcase disc back of the pile of tires to the oak box with its two storage batteries.
Guy Garrick 1908
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It was now the work of but a minute to attach one of the wires that led from the watchcase disc back of the pile of tires to the oak box with its two storage batteries.
Guy Garrick 1908
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It was now the work of but a minute to attach one of the wires that led from the watchcase disc back of the pile of tires to the oak box with its two storage batteries.
Guy Garrick 1908
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There was nothing displeasing in the exercise of the graver; and as it required no very extraordinary abilities to attain perfection as a watchcase engraver, I hoped to arrive at it.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896
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The inside of a watchcase makes a sufficient mirror, and I make a cup from a kalo leaf.
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I glanced about, but there were the familiar objects as usual, as far as the indistinct light allowed me to see, and I made sure by feeling on the wall at the bed's head for my watchcase.
The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation A Christmas Story Louisa May Alcott 1860
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