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Definition of Horologer
1. Noun. Someone who makes or repairs watches.
Generic synonyms: Maker, Shaper
Derivative terms: Horology, Horology
Definition of Horologer
1. n. A maker or vender of clocks and watches; one skilled in horology.
Definition of Horologer
1. Noun. A maker or seller of clocks and watches. ¹
2. Noun. One skilled in horology. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Horologer
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Horologer
1. A maker or vender of clocks and watches; one skilled in horology. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horologer
Literary usage of Horologer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoir of the Life and Times of General John Lamb: An Officer of the by Isaac Q. Leake (1850)
"Quebec horologer.—Prisoners in the Seminary.—Plan Escape.—Discovered and Plan
abandoned.—Some of the Privates enlist.—Reproved by Lamb and Steele. ..."
2. Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher (1875)
"Then I carry it to a horologer. He takes out every one of the wheels, ... It is
the same watch after the horologer has done with it that it was when the ..."
3. Machinery (1902)
"Mr. Arthur does not profess to be an horologer, but he has made the subjects of
gearing and fine machine work a study for many years and has applied the ..."
4. Records of a Quaker Family: The Richardsons of Cleveland by Anne Ogden Boyce (1889)
"The art of the " horologer," to use the old fashioned word, seems to have been
hereditary in the Ogden family. Some of the name carried on that business in ..."
5. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"WHITEHURST, JOHN (1713-1788), horologer, born at. Congleton in Cheshire on 10
April 1713, was the son of John Whitehurst, a clock and watch maker of that ..."
6. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1864)
"It was probably some sarcastic Italian, and, perhaps, horologer, who, to describe
the disagreement of persons, ..."
7. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1859)
"It was probably some sarcastic Italian, and, perhaps, horologer, who, to describe
the disagreement of persons, ..."
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