clockwareとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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clockware (uncountable)

1. Clocks collectively.
   • 1895 January 4, “Finance and Trade”, in The Age, number 12,434, Melbourne, Vic., page 4, column 2:

     Thus we find clockware, imitation jewellery, silk thread works of art and dried fruits enumerated as being supplied largely from the Continent to meet the Indian bazaar demands.

   • 1909 December 10, “Cargoes Worth Millions; Brisk Morning Business in Shipping; Three Ocean Liners Arrive and Two Depart; […]”, in Boston Evening Transcript, eightieth year, number 288, page 1:

     Both incoming liners had large quantities of Christmas goods, such as laces and linens, clockware, nuts and grapes.

   • 1916 August 9, “When the Alarm Clock Goes Ting-a-ling in the Morning”, in The Evening Times, volume I, number 45, Tulsa, Okla.; Sand Springs, Okla., page five, column 5:

     Anyway, the little alarm clock has everything over all other forms and fashions and designs in clockware right at this time.

   • 1980 February, Polish Perspectives, volume XXIII, number 2, →ISSN, page 72, column 2:

     In his spare time he also repairs 19th- and 20th century clockware.

   • 1996, Jim Fisher, Fall Guys: False Confessions and the Politics of Murder, Carbondale, Ill.; Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 119:

     We sell other merchandise too—clockware, candles, clip-on lights, and things like that.