Clocks
- A part of a clock or watch used to support an outrigger bearing for a gear or lever
- Balance cock, supports the balance wheel in a watch
- Fly cock, supports the fly on a bracket clock
- Back cock, supports the pendulum and pallet arbor
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Famous quotes containing the word clocks:
“What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day? Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the
tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored
taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous
to demand the time of the day.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It was a bright, cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“Weighing the steadfastness and state
Of some mean things which here below reside,
Where birds like watchful clocks the noiseless date
And intercourse of times divide,”
—Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)