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ˈgrand-daughter
[See grand a. 12 b.]
a. The daughter of one's son or daughter.
1611Bible 2 Kings viii. 26 Athaliah the daughter of Omri [marg. or granddaughter]. 1625–8tr. Camden's Eliz. Introd. (1630) 7 Lady Iane Grey, grand-daughter to the second sister of King Henry the eighth. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xviii. xiii, The tattling of his little grand⁓daughter, who [etc.]. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) II. 18 The grand-daughter married without consent.
b. transf. Of a mare.
1891Daily News 26 Oct. 3/5 Kairouan, a grand-daughter of Hermit..won in a canter.
c. Path. in attrib. use (see quots.).
1885W. Roberts Urin. & Renal Dis. iii. xiii. (ed. 4) 635 In rare cases the secondary cysts contain a tertiary series (grand-daughter cysts). 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 1118 Such cysts..may give rise to a numerous progeny of daughter or even granddaughter bladders.
d. attrib. grand-daughter clock, a clock similar to, but smaller than, a grandfather clock; also ellipt.
1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 385/2 Granddaughter-clock, a long-case clock about 3½ ft. high, with movement usually provided with lever escapement; a grandfather-clock in miniature. 1962E. Bruton Dict. Clocks 83 Grand-daughter clock, modern clock of grandfather style standing under about 4 ft. 6 in. high. 1968R. Thomson Antique Amer. Clocks & Watches iii. 80 The New England tall clock reached the pinnacle of development about 1810... On the right is a miniature (or ‘granddaughter’) in the same style. |