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▪ I. clocked, a.|klɒkt|
[f. clock n.2 + -ed2.]
Embroidered with clocks.
1712Budgell Spect. No. 319 ⁋12, [I] made a fair Push for the Silver-clocked Stocking. 1858Thackeray Virgin. xvi. 122 A little ancle, a little clocked stocking, and a little black satin slipper. 1860J. C. Jeaffreson Bk. Doctors II. 202 Clocked stockings..had on either side, extending from the heel upwards some six inches, flowers gracefully embroidered with a light yellow silk on the crimson ground.
†b. Used of similar embroidered patterns. Obs.
1548in Cussans Ch. Goods Herts. (1873) 21 A cope of Blake vellat and Clothe of gold clocked.
▪ II. clocked, a.2
Brit. |klɒkt|, U.S. |klɑkt|
[‹ clock v.1 + -ed suffix1.]
1. Electronics and Computing. Governed by a repetitive timing signal; caused electronically to run at a particular rate.
1967Electronics 40 160/1 The D flip-flop..is useful in both clocked and unclocked storage registers. 1984IEEE Jrnl. Solid State Circuits 19 236/1 Synchronization errors occur when asynchronous digital signals are received by clocked digital systems. 1996New Scientist 9 Mar. 36/1 High demand for power is not the only disadvantage of ‘clocked’ chips. 2002Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 4939/1 (caption) Operation of the self-assembled electronic device... Circuit diagram of the clocked shift register.
2. Brit. colloq. Of a motor vehicle: having had its odometer turned back to display a falsely low mileage; (also of an odometer) turned back. Cf. clock v.1
Chiefly with reference to the second-hand car trade.
1974Daily Tel. 2 Feb. 2/5 Under the new conditions of sale at the auctions, the onus is placed on the vendor to accept the return of a ‘clocked’ vehicle and refund the selling price. 1987Back Street Heroes June 35/3 By the time you read this I imagine that British Car Auctions will be dropping the gavel on a couple of thousand rotting Marinas, dodgey [sic] Cortinas, and clocked Allegros daily. 1996Daily Express 26 June 32/4 Nearly-new cars are far from the traditional Arfur Daley school of second-hand vehicles, with ‘clocked’ or turned back mileometers and oil leaks. |