Dictionary

clockware en · NOUN

Etymology

From clock + -ware.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Clocks collectively.
   • Both incoming liners had large quantities of Christmas goods, such as laces and linens, clockware, nuts and grapes. 1909 December 10, “Cargoes Worth Millions; Brisk Morning Business in Shipping; Three Ocean Liners Arrive and Two Depart; […]”, in Boston Evening Transcript, eightieth year, number 288, page 1:
   • In his spare time he also repairs 19th- and 20th century clockware. 1980 February, Polish Perspectives, volume XXIII, number 2, →ISSN, page 72, column 2:
   • Thus we find clockware, imitation jewellery, silk thread works of art and dried fruits enumerated as being supplied largely from the Continent to meet the Indian bazaar demands. 1895 January 4, “Finance and Trade”, in The Age, number 12,434, Melbourne, Vic., page 4, column 2:
   • We sell other merchandise too—clockware, candles, clip-on lights, and things like that. 1996, Jim Fisher, Fall Guys: False Confessions and the Politics of Murder, Carbondale, Ill.; Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 119:
   • Anyway, the little alarm clock has everything over all other forms and fashions and designs in clockware right at this time. 1916 August 9, “When the Alarm Clock Goes Ting-a-ling in the Morning”, in The Evening Times, volume I, number 45, Tulsa, Okla.; Sand Springs, Okla., page five, column 5: