What (who) is cuckoo clock - definition

TYPICALLY PENDULUM-REGULATED CLOCK THAT STRIKES THE HOURS WITH A SOUND LIKE A COMMON CUCKOO'S CALL

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cuckoo clock

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A cuckoo clock is a clock with a door from which a toy cuckoo comes out and makes noises like a cuckoo every hour or half hour.

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Cuckoo clock

A cuckoo clock is, typically, a pendulum clock that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cuckoo call and has an automated cuckoo bird that moves with each note. Some move their wings and open and close their beaks while leaning forwards, whereas others have only the bird's body leaning forward.

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cuckoo clock

¦ noun a clock with a mechanical cuckoo that pops out on the hour making a sound like a cuckoo's call.

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Cuckoo clock

A cuckoo clock is a type of clock, typically pendulum driven, that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cuckoo call and has an automated cuckoo bird that moves with each note. Some move their wings and open and close their beaks while leaning forwards, whereas others have only the bird's body leaning forward. The mechanism to produce the cuckoo call has been in use since the middle of the 18th century and has remained almost without variation.

It is unknown who invented the cuckoo clock and where the first one was made. It is thought that much of its development and evolution was made in the Black Forest area in southwestern Germany (in the modern state of Baden-Württemberg), the region where the cuckoo clock was popularized and from where it was exported to the rest of the world, becoming world-famous from the mid-1850s on. Today, the cuckoo clock is one of the favourite souvenirs of travellers in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. It has become a cultural icon of Germany.

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Pronunciation examples for cuckoo clock

1. The Germans invented the cuckoo clock.

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2. brought the world but the cuckoo clock?

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Examples of use of cuckoo clock

1. The cuckoo clock." Has Europe today entered its age of the cuckoo clock?

2. Don‘t be surprised if you leave with a cuckoo clock.

3. Dour, forthright and serious, Merkel did it all by herself, with an invisible professor husband who pops out of his cuckoo clock only once a year at a Bavarian opera festival.

4. The cuckoo clock." Speaking at the end of The Third Man, Orson Welles omitted to add that Switzerland – along with that other oasis of tranquillity, Canada – is also one of the best countries in the world at curling, a sport traditionally considered on a par with tiddlywinks for the demands it puts on players and spectators alike.

5. Nancy Hylbert gave thanks for a wrought–iron ice cream table and chairs that survived outside, and a terra cotta statue of a cat from her garden. They are the only links with my past, she said. I feel a little bit like an amnesiac with no link to my past.‘‘ Barbara Warden escaped her home with only three boxes of photographs and her grandfather‘s cuckoo clock. We‘re sitting in church and I‘m saying to myself, ‘Our lives will never be the same,‘‘‘ she said.