black clock

English

Noun

black clock (plural black clocks)

1. (Yorkshire) the black beetle.
   • 1865, William Stott Banks, A List of Provincial Words in use at Wakefield in Yorkshire, Wakefield: J.R.Smith, page 8:

     BLACK CLOCKS, 1, blackbeetles. "There's noa end o' black clocks i' t' hoil."