Clock

Clock

Any instrument other than a watch for measuring or indicating time, especially a mechanical or electronic device having a numbered dial and moving hands or a digital display.

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The name given to sticks of wood, preferably dogwood, which are used for cleaning out pivot holes. They are usually about six inches long and up to 1/4 in. In diameter. The wood is sharpened to enter ...

Pedometer

Chronometry; Clock

A device carried on the person, for counting the number of paces walked, and hence determining the distance. Counting was usually carried out by a pawl engaging with a ratchet wheel, the pawl being ...

Pediment

Chronometry; Clock

The decorative top of a case, above the cornice.

Pedestal clock

Chronometry; Clock

A clock designed with its own pedestal, to stand in the centre of a room or against a wall; also sometimes called 'column' clock or 'term' clock. Certain Renaissance clocks were made in this form, ...

Pawl

Chronometry; Clock

A click mounted on an oscillating arm used to advance a ratchet wheel. The term is generally used by engineers to denote a click.

Parquetry

Chronometry; Clock

A form of marquetry, produced by the same process, in which the pattern, instead of a free arrangement of bird and flower designs or scrolled arabesques, is a geometric layout of different coloured ...

Cup sundial

Chronometry; Clock

A form of scaphe dial, namely a dial with a hollowed-out surface. The term can be applied to a chalice dial, but it more often refers to dials with hour lines engraved in a shallow circular ...