clock jack

noun

, Horology.

1. jack ¹( def 19 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of clock jack¹

1925–30; earlier jack of the clock-(house) , jackaclock; jack ¹

Example Sentences

At one o'clock Jack, appearing at the door, immediately recognized the situation.

From Project Gutenberg

Snowfoot's week was up the next forenoon; and at about ten o'clock Jack, accompanied by Lion, and carrying a double-barrelled fowling-piece, with which he had shot a brace of prairie hens by the way, walked into the Betterson door-yard.

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"I thought you would have been in by two o'clock, Jack," his mother said reproachfully, "so as to see Lily before she went off to school again."

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By eight o'clock Jack was in bed, and having acquired the fisherman's habit of waking at any hour he chose, he was at the door when Bill Corbett and his brother Joe came along.

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There was the clock jack, two splendid specimens of which are illustrated in Fig.

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