clock-house
[f. clock n.1 + house.]
A house built for, or having, a public clock; that part of a steeple, etc. in which a clock is set. See jack of the Clockhouse. Obs.
| 1622–3 Althorp MS. in Simpkinson Washingtons Introd. 42 To Gibson for a new locke for the clockhouse dore. 1563 Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (1869) 114 For mendinge the chymes and the barrelle and jake of the clockehouse. 1656 J. Harrington Oceana (1771) 112 (Jod.) The great bell in the clockhouse at the Pantheon. 1821 Scott Kenilw. xii, One of these turrets was square and occupied as a clock-house. |