A small cogwheel (or spur wheel with a small number of teeth), esp. in a clock; (also) a metal projection upon a spindle, usually engaging in some…

concrete. A weight used to move the mechanism of a clock. Also figurative. Obsolete (chiefly Scottish in later use).

A lump of lead (or occasionally other metal) used as a weight, as in a clock or on a fishing line. Obsolete.

(A name for) a mechanical figure of a man which strikes a bell on a clock or clock tower at certain times; = Jack of the clock n. at phrases 3…

The mechanism or works of a mechanical clock or watch, including trains of wheels and pinions with interlocking teeth, set in motion by weights or…

A mechanism fitted to a clock or watch, which can be adjusted in advance to produce a ringing or similar sound at any particular time; a clock or…

(A name given to) a mechanical figure of a man which strikes a bell on a clock or clock tower at certain times, typically every quarter of an…

the balance wheel of the ‘watch-work’ of a clock; also in combinations.

A set of (esp. moving) parts forming a machine or mechanism. In later use (in plural): the internal working parts of a machine; esp. the mechanism…

A weight in a clock; (also figurative) a motive force, a prompt to action. Obsolete.

= Jack of the clockhouse n.

In senses 3 5, as snail-cam, snail-mount, snail-movement, snail-piece, snail-work.

In senses 3 5, as snail-cam, snail-mount, snail-movement, snail-piece, snail-work.

The hand or indicator of a clock, balance, dial, or other instrument.

A jack of the clock which strikes the quarters. See Jack, n.2 6, Jack of the clock n. at Jack, n.2 phrases 3.

The principal spring in a mechanism, esp. a watch or clock. Also figurative.

A key for winding a jack, clock, or other mechanism. Also attributive in winder-hole n. the hole through which the key is passed in winding.

the count-wheel in a clock.

A conical pulley or wheel, esp. the wheel of a watch or clock upon which the chain is wound and by which the power of the mainspring is equalized.

the wheel regulating the striking in some clocks.

(a) any of several types of cog wheel used in a mechanism (now rare) †(b) a device or mechanism used for making a large clock easier to wind; =…

The structure in a clock or watch which supports the mechanism.

The axle or spindle on which a wheel revolves, esp. in clocks and watches. (Cf. axle-tree, n.) arbor-chuck: (see quot.)

Watchmaking. A mechanical contrivance which regulates the speed of a clock or watch.

= fusee, n.2 2. Also fuse-wheel.

a figure denoting the hour, esp. on a dial-plate.

Clockwork. A contrivance to prevent overwinding.

A projection on a machine part that engages with the teeth of a wheel to interconvert reciprocating and rotary motions; spec. (in a clock or watch)…

A pendulum, spring, or other device for controlling the speed of a clock or watch so that it accurately keeps time. Now frequently historical.

Clockmaking and Watchmaking. A bracket attached to the plate of a watch or clock to support one or more wheels, levers, etc.

The moving parts of a mechanism, esp. of a watch, clock, or organ; a part or group of parts in a clock, organ, etc., serving a particular purpose…

spec. In clocks and watches: The catch which regulates the striking.

At the church of St Dunstan in the West, London: either of two figures depicted wearing loincloths and bearing clubs which strike the bells of the…

Watchmaking and Clockmaking. That part of a timekeeping mechanism which is concerned with striking or sounding the hour, as distinct from that…

A cogwheel whose teeth are small pins set into the rim; (Clockmaking) a wheel in the striking train of a clock in which pins are set to lift the…

= star-wheel, n. 2.

the escape-wheel of a clock, which drives the pendulum; also, the balance-wheel of a watch; also attributive.

the wheel that produces the ‘warning’ (see 5b).

The going-part of a clock. ? Obsolete.

= watch train n.

the detent-wheel of a clock.

(a) = hour-circle, n. 2; (b) that wheel in a clock which carries the hour-hand.

Mechanics. A flat, spirally curved piece of metal; esp. a toothed disc of this shape forming part of the striking mechanism of a clock; a spiral cam.

a wheel with an edge formed in twelve steps arranged spirally, used in striking-clocks.

work which can be carried on only during hours when the tide is low, or that is paid for by the tide (cf. 8); also, part of the mechanism of a…

A set of gears, wheels, rollers, or other connected parts of a mechanism which actuate one another… Without indication of composition; spec. the…

In a clock: The fork at the end of the arm which depends from the axis of the anchor-escapement, and receives the pendulum rod between its arms.

(in watches and clocks) a pinion (pinion, n.4) in the form of a hollow cylinder or having a tubular extension that fits around a shaft, esp. one…

†(a) Clockmaking = seat-board n. (a) at seat, n. compounds 2 (obsolete); (b) a board forming part of a bucket of a waterwheel, placed at an angle to…

A mechanism, typically involving a weight or spring, by which a uniform impulse is given to the pendulum or balance of a clock or watch at regular…

Watchmaking and Clockmaking. In a watch or clock, the mechanism which intervenes between the motive power and regulator, and which alternately…

a mechanical figure of a man which strikes a bell on a clock or clock tower at certain time; = Jack of the clockhouse n. at Jack, n.2 phrases 3.

Clockmaking and Watchmaking. = count-wheel n. at count, n.1 compounds.

= escapement, n. 2.

the mechanism for moving the hands of a clock or watch.

(in pendulum clocks) an escapement in which the pallets alternately checking the motion of the escape wheel are situated at either end of a…

= scapement, n. Cf. scape, v.2 and scape-wheel.

Any of various notched, toothed, or spoked wheels forming part of a given mechanism, esp. (a) a notched or toothed wheel used in clockwork to…

a form of escapement in clocks and watches in which the teeth of the crown wheel or balance wheel act on the pallets by recoil.

= recoil pallet n. at recoil, n. compounds 3.

= recoiling escapement n.

Mechanics. A barrel or hollow cylindrical piece capable of revolving independently on a shaft, with a greater or lesser velocity than that of the…

‘In a striking clock, a continuation of the hammer stalk that is lifted by the pins in the pin wheel’ (Britten Watch & Clockm. 1884).

= recoil escapement n. at recoil, n. compounds 3.

(a) a jack for roasting meat, whose mechanism is housed in a bottle-shaped casing (now historical); †(b) an escapement in a clock or watch…

a spring forming part of the remontoire mechanism of a clock.

a quarter-jack in the form of a boy (also figurative).

A pointed tooth of a gear, cog, etc.; (Clockmaking) each of the pins on the escape wheel of a pinwheel escapement. Now historical.

a wheel in a clock serving to show the apparent daily motion of the sun.

attributive and in other combinations, esp. in various technical terms relating to the driving mechanism of a clock, as impulse-teeth, etc.

(a) the escape wheel of a clock; (b) the balance wheel of a watch.

an arbor on which a pallet is fixed.

A person who or that which winds something again; one who or that which winds back.

A hooked lever which engages in the rack of the striking mechanism of a clock.

(see quot. 1846 and sense 5).

a bell in a clock which sounds the quarter hours.

In various specific or contextual uses (Scottish or English dialect): e.g.

†(a) a spoked wheel used to drive the rotation of the bobbin in a textile-processing machine; = sense 14b (Obsolete); (b) (chiefly Mining) a pulley…

the set of wheels and pinions which drive the hands of a clock, as distinguished from the striking train.

a mechanism consisting of a series or train (train, n.2 12a) of toothed wheels, esp. in a clock.

= hammer-tail, n. a.

Applied to the works of a watch or other time-piece. Also figurative.

(see quot. 1884).

Applied to various tools or contrivances having a jumping motion. A spring or click controlling the starwheel of a repeating clock.

= going train n. at going, n. compounds 2.

A pallet in the form of a metal pin (in some watches) or semicircular jewel (in certain small clocks), one of which projects from each arm of the…

An implement resembling a spade in form or use. A spade-like attachment serving to increase the grip of a wheel, retard the motion of a conical…

A ‘well’ or excavation into which the weights of a large clock descend.

a mechanism to prevent the overwinding of the spring of a watch, etc.

A mechanical device or apparatus for causing a bell to ring.

(see quot. 1875).

Clock-making. The piece that ‘warns’ that the clock is about to strike.

(a) Horology (see quot. 1884); (b) (in a rifle) the pin by which the guard (sense 16d) is attached.

an overhanging bracket in a clock supporting the pendulum (cf. cock, n.1 19).

the lever that sets in motion the warning-wheel.

In a clock or watch: The stroke of a pallet of the pendulum or balance on a tooth of the scape wheel; the sound thus produced; also the regular…

spec. Clockmaking. (See quot. 1884.)

(See quot. 1884.)

In mechanical applications. In a clock or watch: see quot. 1884.

Clock-making. (See quot. 1884.)

A type of clock escapement consisting of a bar with adjustable weights on the ends. (Disused.)

Clockmaking. = grasshopper escapement n. at compounds 2a. Now historical and rare.

a type of recoil escapement (see recoil, n. compounds 3) in which the arms bearing the pallets are hinged in the middle and arranged in a way…

(See quot. 1950.) Cf. trunk dial n. at compounds 2.

A lever with one or more projecting metal pins; (Watchmaking and Clockmaking) a pin pallet escapement; a watch having such an escapement (cf. pin…

As a modifier, designating various parts or components of a clock, as in clock bell, clock case, clock hand, clock spring, clock wheel, etc.