different between clocked vs clocke

English

Verb

clocked

1. simple past tense and past participle of clock

Adjective

clocked (comparative more clocked, superlative most clocked)

1. Embroidered with clocks. [from 16th c.]
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 232:

     But it will be impossible, if you keep your laced clothes covered, that anybody should know you in that dress to be the same gentleman—except they find you out by your clocked stockings.

2. (electronics) Electronically running at a particular rate; governed by a repetitive time signal. [from 20th c.]
3. (Britain, colloquial) Of a motor vehicle: having had its odometer turned back so as to display a lower mileage. [from 20th c.]

Anagrams

• cockled

English

Noun

clocke (plural clockes)

1. Obsolete spelling of clock

Anagrams

• Elcock, cockle

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *klokka, from Old Northern French cloque (“bell”), from Medieval Latin clocca, probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch, Irish clog), from Proto-Indo-European *kl?g-, *kl?g- (onomatopoeia).

Noun

clocke f

1. bell
2. something bell-shaped

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: klok
• Limburgish: klók

Further reading

• “clocke”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “clocke (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Noun

clocke

1. Alternative form of clokke