clocked
adj1
Embroidered with clocks (i.e. figured decorations, not timepieces).
- But it will be impossible, if you keep your laced clothes covered, that anybody should know you in that dress to be the same gentleman—except they find you out by your clocked stockings.1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CCXXXII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC:
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Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Electronically running at a particular rate; governed by a repetitive time signal.
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UK, Colloquial Of a motor vehicle: having had its odometer turned back so as to display a lower mileage.
- Derived terms
- unclocked