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Definition of Turret clock
1. Noun. A clock with more than one dial to show the time in all directions from a tower.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turret Clock
Literary usage of Turret clock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1851)
"Another, and a more unusual feature, which Mr. Dent has introduced into the
turret-clock manufacture, although it is not adopted in the Exchange clock, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In a turret clock the friction is enormously increased by the great weight of
all the parts ; and the resistance of the wind, and sometimes mow, ..."
3. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction by Reuben Percy, John Timbs (1843)
"in action for some months past at the Hoyal Polytechnic Institution, one a
large 'illuminated turret clock on the facade in Begent street, ..."
4. Time and Time-tellers by James W. Benson (1875)
"A MODERN turret clock DESCRIBED. The turret clock which the highest skill and
the best experience of the value of the latest improvements can produce, ..."
5. A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks and Watches and Bells by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (1874)
"Somebody however thought he knew better; for in the 1862 Exhibition there appeared
for a short time a small turret clock with this escapement, ..."
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