Clockwork Definition

Clockwork Sentence Examples

• Tik-tok moved by clockwork, and was made all of burnished copper.

• In 1757 he presented a telescope to the king, so accurately driven by clockwork that it would follow a star all night long.

• In the actual instrument, the paper diagram is mounted upon a drum caused by clockwork to revolve uniformly, and is ruled with vertical hour lines, and horizontal quantity lines representing gallons per hour.

• Strong worms and wheels are substituted for the light clockwork.

• By an invention probably due to Humfray Cole and published in 1 578 by William Bourne in his Inventions and Devices, it was proposed to register a ship's speed by means of a "little small close boat," with a wheel, or wheels, and an axle-tree to turn clockwork in the little boat, with dials and pointers indicating fathoms, leagues, scores of leagues and hundreds of leagues.