e/Bracket clock

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has gloss	eng: A bracket clock is a style of antique portable table clock made in the 17th and 18th centuries. The term originated with small weight driven clocks (sometimes called true bracket clocks) that had to be mounted on a bracket on the wall to allow room for their hanging weights. When spring driven clocks were invented they continued to be made in the bracket style. Often they are composed of two matching pieces created as an ensemble: the clock and its small decorative shelf. They are almost always made of wood, often ebony, and often ornamented with ormolu mounts, brass inlay, wood or tortoise shell veneer, or decorative varnish. Since in their day clocks were expensive, and a household would not have one in every room, bracket clocks usually had handles to carry them from room to room.
lexicalization	eng: bracket clock
instance of	(noun) a timepiece that shows the time of day clock

Meaning
German
has gloss	deu: Als Stockuhren (auch Stutzuhren oder Bracket Clocks) wird eine Form von Räderuhren mit Federzug bezeichnet, die zum Aufstellen auf Tischen, Kommoden, Kaminen oder Konsolen geeignet sind, und sich dadurch gegenüber Bodenstanduhren, Wanduhren und tragbaren Uhren abgrenzen. Stockuhren werden unterschieden in Altaruhren, Figurenuhren, Pendulen, Portaluhren, Spiegeluhren, Tischuhren, Türmchenuhren und Zappler. Große Bedeutung für die Entwicklung der Stockuhren hatte die Pendelkonstruktion des holländischen Physikers Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695). Charakteristisch für Stockuhren des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts sind massive Messingwerke mit Spindelgang und Federantrieb mit Kette und Schnecke. Bedeutende Beispiele für meisterhafte Bracket Clocks stammen vom Londoner Uhrmacher Thomas Tompion (1639–1713).
lexicalization	deu: Stockuhr

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