Obs.

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  1.  a. ? A time-piece actuated by a spring. b. ? A clock with a dial indicating minutes and seconds. Also watch pendulum clock.

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1592.  Dee, Compend. Rehearsall, in Chetham Misc. (1851), I. 29. An excellent watch-clock,… by which clock the tyme might sensibly be measured in the seconds of an houre.

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1633.  T. James, Voy., Q b. A Watch-clocke, of sixe inches Diameter: and another lesser Watch.

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1650.  Trapp, Comm. Exod. xxxv. 32. A certain artificer set a watch-clock upon a ring that Charls the Fifth wore upon his finger.

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1671.  Flamsteed in Rigaud, Corr. Sci. Men (1841), II. 118. I spoke and wrote to my kinsman about a watch clock. Ibid., 121. I wrote by my coz. Wilson about procuring me a watch pendulum clock.

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  2.  An alarum clock. Cf. WATCH sb. 19.

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1598.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. i. IV. Handie Crafts, 94. Pourfull Need (Arts ancient Dame and keeper, The early watch-clock [Fr. resveille-matin] of the sloathfull sleeper).

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