clockmaker
IPA: kɫˈɑkmeɪkɝ
noun
- A person who makes and/or maintains clocks.
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Examples of "clockmaker" in Sentences
- The king ordered his clockmaker to repair it.
- Clockmaker is also the name of several movies.
- By profession he was a clockmaker in Maidstone.
- A typical personification is that of a clockmaker.
- What perfection cried the clockmaker to the night
- It is God as a creator as a clockmaker is a creator.
- There is already talk about that on the Clockmaker page.
- He attended the common schools and worked as was a clockmaker.
- By the 1820s 1830s, the town had a cabinet maker and clockmaker.
- There was also a clockmaker workshop, and a stone cutter workshop.
- He wrapped the two volumes and handed them to the young aspiring clockmaker.
- Isn't it REAL WRITING when it's about subjects like that weird little gnome of a clockmaker in my town ...
- Sometimes I think that the great celestial clockmaker has it in for us all — and that clockmaker is laughing at our expense.
- The Kazoo was invented in the 1840s a German clockmaker named Thaddeus Von Clegg, who made it to specifications provided by Alabama Vest of Macon, Georgia.
- Aimed at a broad audience including families, the ballet features Clemmie Sveaas as the princess, Aaron Sillis as the clockmaker and Mr. Putrov as the baddie.
- ElBulli is a little like the old theological construct of the clockmaker God: create all the conditions for life on Earth, wind it up, then stand back and let it run.
- There is a "clockmaker" theory that allows for both creation and evolution - the idea is that the universe was created with initial conditions such that evolution could take place.
- William Andrews, former curator of the now-defunct Time Museum and a master clockmaker, is trying to build an advanced sundial that melds horology, cartography, and a passion for antique scientific instrumentation.
- In 1714, the British Parliament passed the Longitude Act, offering awards to inventors who could solve the problem of measuring longitude at sea; from 1737 to 1765, clockmaker John Harrison earned a series of awards totaling £ 14,315 for improvements to his marine chronometer.
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