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cuckoo clock

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cuckoo clocknoun

    clock that announces the hours with a sound like the call of the cuckoo

Wiktionary

  1. cuckoo clocknoun

    A clock that announces the time by a cuckoo sound, often equipped with a mechanical cuckoo.

Wikipedia

  1. Cuckoo clock

    A cuckoo clock is a type of clock, typically pendulum driven, that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cuckoo call and has an automated cuckoo bird that moves with each note. Some move their wings and open and close their beaks while leaning forwards, whereas others have only the bird's body leaning forward. The mechanism to produce the cuckoo call has been in use since the middle of the 18th century and has remained almost without variation. It is unknown who invented the cuckoo clock and where the first one was made. It is thought that much of its development and evolution was made in the Black Forest area in southwestern Germany (in the modern state of Baden-Württemberg), the region where the cuckoo clock was popularized and from where it was exported to the rest of the world, becoming world-famous from the mid-1850s on. Today, the cuckoo clock is one of the favourite souvenirs of travellers in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. It has become a cultural icon of Germany.

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  1. cuckoo clock

    A cuckoo clock is a traditional type of clock, usually pendulum-regulated, that originates from the Black Forest in Germany. It is characterized by its unique feature of a bird that pops out and makes a "cuckoo" sound typically every hour, replicating the call of a cuckoo bird. The design often features intricate craftsmanship and is typically made of wood.

Wikidata

  1. Cuckoo clock

    A cuckoo clock is a clock, typically pendulum-regulated, that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cuckoo's call and typically has a mechanical cuckoo that emerges with each note. The mechanism to produce the cuckoo call was installed in almost every kind of cuckoo clock since the middle of the 18th century and has remained almost without variation until the present.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cuckoo clock in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cuckoo clock in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of cuckoo clock in a Sentence

  1. Orson Welles:

    In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

  2. Orson Welles:

    In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock.


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