pigeon clock

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English

Noun

pigeon clock (plural pigeon clocks)

  1. A timing device used to officially record the exact time a pigeon returns to its loft in a race.
    • 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 120:
      When Corker trapped in Monte put her ring in the hatch of the pigeon clock