grandfather clock

noun

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.

Definitions

  1. A longcase clock.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA