What (who) is grandfather clock - definition

TALL, FREESTANDING, WEIGHT-DRIVEN PENDULUM CLOCK

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grandfather clock

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A grandfather clock is an old-fashioned type of clock in a tall wooden case which stands upright on the floor.

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grandfather clock

¦ noun a clock in a tall free-standing wooden case, driven by weights.

Grandfather clock

A grandfather clock (also a longcase clock, tall-case clock, grandfather's clock, or floor clock) is a tall, freestanding, weight-driven pendulum clock with the pendulum held inside the tower or waist of the case. Clocks of this style are commonly 1.

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Grandfather clock

A grandfather clock (also a longcase clock, tall-case clock, grandfather's clock, or floor clock) is a tall, freestanding, weight-driven pendulum clock with the pendulum held inside the tower or waist of the case. Clocks of this style are commonly 1.8–2.4 metres (6–8 feet) tall with an enclosed pendulum and weights suspended by either cables or chains, which have to be occasionally calibrated to keep the proper time. The case often features elaborately carved ornamentation on the hood (or bonnet), which surrounds and frames the dial, or clock face. The English clockmaker William Clement is credited with developing this form in 1670. Until the early 20th century, pendulum clocks were the world's most accurate timekeeping technology, and longcase clocks, due to their superior accuracy, served as time standards for households and businesses. Today they are kept mainly for their decorative and antique value, which has been widely replaced by analog and digital timekeeping.

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Pronunciation examples for grandfather clock

1. Oval Office, I would not have heard the grandfather clock.

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2. a tree sized grandfather clock stood guard just

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3. There's the grandfather clock, which is big and fancy,

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4. "The room's only sound is a metronimically-metronimically ticking grandfather clock.

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5. of a grandfather clock and you've got a limited time. And we talked in particular about the

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Examples of use of grandfather clock

1. One chair cannot even be pushed up against the wall because the grandfather clock is in the way.

2. Inside, her lifes possessions the grandfather clock handed down through generations, her curio full of antique crystal, her grandchildrens dolls lay crushed and crumbled in a carpet of wet mud.

3. He "wanted to avoid criminal prosecution for stealing the money, and killed Craig for it." Craig had socked thousands of dollars away in a grandfather clock by 1''', when he asked Porter to take charge of his reported $2.5 million trust to build the Central Valley Museum of Agriculture in Hickman, a town of about 450.

4. He had nearly reached the grandfather clock at the door, two witnesses said, when the president said, "Jim, can I talk to you for a minute?" Bush nodded toward the private dining room a few steps from his desk, the one he shared with Cheney once a week.

5. And just two years before the end of his life, you find a ramrod–straight Munch standing "Between the Clock and the Bed," balding and seemingly defiant, his paintings behind him on the wall –– and a grandfather clock standing near with no hands to tell the time.