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Meaning of pocket clock | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A small portable timepiece; a pocket watch.

historical

Equivalents

Galego mostra

Examples

“Though as small pocket-clocks, whose every wheele / Doth each mismotion and distemper feele…”
“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 […].”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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