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Grandfather clock

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A longcase clock.
  2. 2
    a pendulum clock enclosed in a tall narrow case wordnet

Etymology

From an 1876 song, Grandfather's Clock, by American songwriter Henry Work, based on a clock in the George Hotel in Piercebridge, County Durham, England, which stopped keeping time after its owner died.

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