Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CLOCK'-WORK
CLOCK'-WORK, n.
- The machinery and movements of a clock; or that part of the movement which strikes the hours on a bell, in distinction from that part which measures and exhibits the time on the face or dial plate, which is called watch-work. – Encyc.
- Well adjusted work, with regular movement. – Prior.
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