| 单词 | jack of the clockhouse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasJack of the clockhouse Jack of the clockhouse n. chiefly historical after 17th cent. (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 hour; formerly also figurative; cf. sense 6.Found chiefly on church clocks, or those of other public buildings. [Compare Middle French (regional: Fribourg) jaquemart (1422), Middle French, French jacquemart, jaquemart (1534), and Old Occitan jacomart (1472), all in the same sense.] ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of nut1428 peise1428 plumbc1450 Jack1498 clockwork1516 larum1542 Jack of the clockhouse1563 watch-wheel1568 work1570 plummeta1578 Jack of the clock1581 snail-cam1591 snail-work1591 pointer1596 quarter jack1604 mainspring1605 winder1606 notch-wheel1611 fusee1622 count-wheel1647 jack-wheel1647 frame1658 arbor1659 balance1660 fuse1674 hour-figure1675 stop1675 pallet1676 regulator1676 cock1678 movement1678 detent1688 savage1690 clock1696 pinwheel1696 starred wheel1696 swing-wheel1696 warning-wheel1696 watch1696 watch-part1696 hoop-wheel1704 hour-wheel1704 snail1714 step-wheel1714 tide-work1739 train1751 crutch1753 cannon pinion1764 rising board1769 remontoire1774 escapement1779 clock jack1784 locking plate1786 scapement1789 motion work1795 anchor escapement1798 scape1798 star-wheel1798 recoil escapement1800 recoiling pallet1801 recoiling scapement1801 cannon1802 hammer-tail1805 recoiling escapement1805 bottle jack1810 renovating spring1812 quarter-boy1815 pin tooth1817 solar wheel1819 impulse-teeth1825 pendulum wheel1825 pallet arbor1826 rewinder1826 rack hook1829 snail-wheel1831 quarter bell1832 tow1834 star pulley1836 watch train1838 clock train1843 raising-piece1843 wheelwork1843 gravity escapement1850 jumper1850 vertical escapement1850 time train1853 pin pallet1860 spade1862 dead well1867 stop-work1869 ringer1873 strike-or-silent1875 warning-piece1875 guard-pin1879 pendulum cock1881 warning-lever1881 beat-pin1883 fusee-piece1884 fusee-snail1884 shutter1884 tourbillion1884 tumbler1884 virgule1884 foliot1899 grasshopper1899 grasshopper escapement1899 trunk1899 pin lever1908 clock spring1933 1563 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 114 For mendinge the chymes..and jake of the clockehouse. 1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 43 A Man, like that which we call Jack of the Clock-house, striking as it were, the Hour of that fulnesse of time. 1771 Notes of Richard III 27 in W. Shakespeare Plays IV An image like those at St. Dunstan's church in Fleet-street, and at the market-houses of several towns in this kingdom, was usually called a jack of the clock-house. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. ii. 128 The jack of the clock-house, often mentioned by writers of the sixteenth century,..either struck the hours upon the bell in their proper rotation, or signified by its gestures that the clock was about to strike. 1898 G. S. Tyack Bk. about Bells xiii. 222 Such clocks were at one time not uncommon in England, the automata being popularly known as ‘Jacks’, or more fully, ‘Jacks of the Clockhouse’. 1963 G. R. Williams Use your Ears! xi. 99 These figures were generally called Jack-of-the-Clockhouse and were of great value to the public as clocks were an expensive rarity. < as lemmas |
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