clockwinder

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English

Noun

clockwinder (plural clockwinders)

  1. A person employed to wind up clocks.
    • 1988 December 20, “Queen's pooches seeing a shrink after nipping spree”, in Weekly World News, page 13:
      So far, the palace has refused to make a statement about the incorrigible corgis. However, sources believe the feisty snappers have already wounded guardsmen, policemen, footmen and the royal clockwinder.
    • 2002, Noel Botham, Margaret - The Last Real Princess:
      Buckingham Palace has more than 600 rooms. Margaret claimed to know more than 400 of them through following the official clock-winder around the palace to satisfy her curiosity.
    • 2016, Willie Daly, Philip Dodd, The Last Matchmaker:
      I always liked to start the ball rolling and so I sang a great song called 'The German Clockwinder'. The song tells the story of a Dublin housewife whose husband is away and who is visited by the blond German clockwinder of the title, one Benjilum Fooks.