Clock: Definition and part of speech

Clock

  1. n. A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).
  2. n. A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.
  3. n. A watch, esp. one that strikes.
  4. n. The striking of a clock.
  5. n. A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.
  6. v. t. To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
  7. v. t. & i. To call, as a hen. See Cluck.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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