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cuckoo clock

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cuckoo clock
n.
A wall or shelf clock that announces intervals of time with a sound imitative of a cuckoo's call and often with the simultaneous emergence of a mechanical bird from a small door.

cuckoo clock
n
(Miscellaneous Technologies / Horology) a clock in which a mechanical cuckoo pops out with a sound like a cuckoo's call when the clock strikes
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Noun1.cuckoo clockcuckoo clock - clock that announces the hours with a sound like the call of the cuckoo
clock - a timepiece that shows the time of day
Translations
cuckoo clock norologio a cucù
cuckoo clock norologio a cucù


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Usually, my falls destroy my dreams, the nervous shock being sufficient to bridge the thousand centuries in an instant and hurl me wide awake into my little bed, where, perchance, I lie sweating and trembling and hear the cuckoo clock calling the hour in the hall.
"They hardly ever stand still," he said, but for one moment Wendy saw the romantic figure come to rest on the cuckoo clock.
The cuckoo clock in the hall told midnight; everyone pressed to depart, for seldom was such a late hour of the night trespassed on by these quiet burghers.
 
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