clocking
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]clocking
- present participle and gerund of clock
Noun
[edit]clocking (plural clockings)
- A time measurement made according to a clock.
- 2012, Kurt C. Schlichting, Grand Central's Engineer:
- At all of the major “breakup” yards where the railroads unloaded and loaded freight — waterfront railyards, pier stations, and inland freight depots — teams conducted clockings, recording all movements of trains […]
- 2012, R. Flodna Knob, The Monster Between My Legs:
- He picked up the sheet of paper which showed the clockings of the two employees. He looked again at the clockings that Earrell had made and smiled to himself; on the fifth of the month, he had skipped his break completely […]