pocket clock
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]pocket clock (plural pocket clocks)
- (now chiefly historical) A small portable timepiece; a pocket watch. [from 17th c.]
- c. 1631, John Donne, Obsequy on the Lord Harrington:
- Though as small pocket-clocks, whose every wheele / Doth each mismotion and distemper feele…
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XX:
- We know there may be as much curiosity of contrivance, and excellency of form in a very small Pocket-clock, that takes up not an Inch square of room, as there may be in a Church-clock that fills a whole room […].