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clockmaker

/klok-mey-ker/US // ˈklɒkˌmeɪ kər //UK // (ˈklɒkˌmeɪkə) //

钟表匠,钟表师,钟表商,制钟师

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who makes or repairs clocks.

Examples

  • I encountered old Farris, the clockmaker, in his brown coat besprinkled behind with powder from his queue.

  • "A pretty gigantic project it was for a clockmaker, I can tell you," went on McPhearson.

  • "A prophet is not without honour save in his own country," laughed the old clockmaker.

  • They were sitting together at the repairing bench, the clockmaker busy with an old chronometer.

  • A more persistent, painstaking, conscientious clockmaker never lived.