Clockwinder

Quick meaning: Clockwinder is a noun meaning A person employed to wind up clocks.

Meaning

A person employed to wind up clocks.

Example Sentences

Buckingham Palace has more than 600 rooms. Margaret claimed to know more than 400 of them through following the official clock-winder around the palace to satisfy her curiosity.

So far, the palace has refused to make a statement about the incorrigible corgis. However, sources believe the feisty snappers have already wounded guardsmen, policemen, footmen and the royal clockwinder.

I always liked to start the ball rolling and so I sang a great song called 'The German Clockwinder'. The song tells the story of a Dublin housewife whose husband is away and who is visited by the blond German clockwinder of the title, one Benjilum Fooks.

Word Forms

• clockwinders

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include winder, windster, clockweight, stem-winder, clockwork, countwheel.

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