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{{11}}clock (n.) late 14c., clokke, originally "clock with bells," probably from M.Du. clocke (Du. klok), from O.N.Fr. cloque, from M.L. (7c.) clocca "bell," probably from Celtic (Cf. O.Ir. clocc, Welsh cloch "bell") and spread by Irish missionaries (unless the Celtic words are from Latin); ultimately of imitative origin. Replaced O.E. dægmæl, from dæg "day" + mæl "measure, mark." The Latin word was horologium; the Greeks used a water-clock (klepsydra, lit. "water thief"). O'clock for of the clock is c.1720.
{{12}}clock (v.) "to time by the clock," 1883, from CLOCK (Cf. clock) (n.). The slang sense of "hit, sock" is 1941, originally Australian, probably from earlier slang clock (n.) "face" (1923).

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