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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A large form of clock, adapted for use on public buildings, church-towers, etc.

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Examples

  • But now one tower-clock after another booms forth the twelve solemn strokes all over the city; the cafés empty themselves, and from the music-halls crowds of people swarm into the streets.

    Shallow Soil 2003

  • The sun sank, sank deeper; a tower-clock in the city somewhere boomed forth the hour.

    Shallow Soil 2003

  • The brownstone is midway in the block, next to a church where a blue tower-clock tolls the hours.

    Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958

  • The brownstone is midway in the block, next to a church where a blue tower-clock tolls the hours.

    Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958

  • The tower-clock struck twelve as in his walk he approached the gate to his little garden: he hesitated, and then noiselessly opened it.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various

  • He turned in rather abruptly at a side door of the dark-red pile of building which boasted the illuminated tower-clock and a jutting ell with barred windows.

    Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928

  • Across from the gloomy pile of old Jefferson Market, she stood, reading up at an illuminated tower-clock, softly, her lips moving.

    Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928

  • The sun sank, sank deeper; a tower-clock in the city somewhere boomed forth the hour.

    Shallow Soil Knut Hamsun 1905

  • But now one tower-clock after another booms forth the twelve solemn strokes all over the city; the cafés empty themselves, and from the music-halls crowds of people swarm into the streets.

    Shallow Soil Knut Hamsun 1905

  • And the tower-clock tolls five, and he admits at last,

    Poems Alan Seeger 1902

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