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UK
/klˈɒkmeɪkɐ/
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NOUN
- someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches
How To Use clockmaker In A Sentence
- Some time in the fifteenth century, clockmakers started to use tightly coiled blades of metal - springs - to power their timepieces, instead of gravity.
- The other approach is to bless a lowly subject, such as the life and times of a clockmaker, with the grandeur and solemnity of an epic.
- Anyway, this guy, he's supposedly a clockmaker in Venice.
- Recent research into the assessors' records has documented seven previously unrecorded Boston clockmakers working between 1787 and 1799.
- For 30 years, he made instruments for the chemical industry after being advised as a youngster against a career as a clockmaker.
- In 1770, Arkwright used millwrights and clockmakers to install his mainly wooden machinery at Cromford.
- Plans are being made to commemorate the famous clockmaker who solved a navigational puzzle that had cost countless mariners' lives.
- Read in studio Britain's most exclusive clockmaker is about to call time on his business - because of the recession.
- Around 1660, clocks with longer pendulums were introduced by English clockmakers.
- So they invented the clock, without encouraging clockmakers.