Vocabulary : Cloche to Clodhopping
Cloche : An apparatus used in controlling certain kinds of aeroplanes, and consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, and the like.Clock : A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person. ;; A watch, esp. one that strikes. ;; The striking of a clock. ;; A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking. ;; To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking. ;; To call, as a hen. See Cluck. ;; A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).
Clocklike : Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.
Clockwise : Like the motion of the hands of a clock; -- said of that direction of a rotation about an axis, or about a point in a plane, which is ordinarily reckoned negative.
Clockwork : The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.
