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Timekeeper :: Timekeeper (n.) A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece..

Cock :: Cock (n.) The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.

Clock :: Clock (n.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius)..

Till :: Till (v. t.) To; unto; up to; as far as; until; -- now used only in respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in Scotland and in parts of England and Ireland; as, I worked till four o'clock; I will wait till next week..

Balance Wheel :: Balance wheel () A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a balance..

Carcel Lamp :: Carcel lamp () A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork..

Water Clock :: Water clock () An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra..

Horography :: Horography (n.) The art of constructing instruments for making the hours, as clocks, watches, and dials..

Finger :: Finger (n.) Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion..

Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock..

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel..

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.

Racktail :: Racktail (n.) An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock..

Tick :: Tick (n.) A quick, audible beat, as of a clock..

Siderostat :: Siderostat (n.) An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.

Detent :: Detent (n.) That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking..

Noon :: Noon (n.) The middle of the day; midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock in the daytime.

Dingdong :: Dingdong (n.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

Clockwork :: Clockwork (n.) The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement..

Set :: Set (v. t.) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a watch or a clock..

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