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The initial layout in a game of Grandfather's Clock. The clock face is for visualization. Grandfather's Clock is an easy patience or solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. [1]
A grandfather clock (also a longcase clock, tall-case clock, grandfather's clock, hall clock or floor clock) is a tall, freestanding, weight-driven pendulum clock, with the pendulum held inside the tower or waist of the case. Clocks of this style are commonly 1.8–2.4 metres (6–8 feet) tall with an enclosed pendulum and weights, suspended by ...
A grandfather clock is a type of freestanding, weight-driven clock, usually six to eight feet in height. Grandfather clock may also refer to: "Grandfather Clock" (This Will Destroy You song), a song by This Will Destroy You, from their EP Young Mountain; Grandfather's Clock, a card game based on solitaire
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The grandson laments the fate of the no-longer-functioning grandfather clock—it was sold to a junk dealer, who sold its parts for scrap and its case for kindling. In the grandfather's house, the clock was replaced by a wall clock , which the grandson disdains (referring to it as "that vain, stuck-up thing on the wall"). [ 2 ]
Support The term "grandfather clock" is a colloquialism that came into use after "longcase", as described by Adrian. A few surfs around antique clock shops and you'll find there's something of a consensus that the correct name for a grandfather clock is a longcase clock (or, more specifically, a floor standing longcase clock). As Wikipedia ...
The Seymour tall case clock in the White House, more commonly known as the Oval Office grandfather clock, is an 8-foot-10-inch (269 cm) longcase clock, made between 1795 and 1805 in Boston by John and Thomas Seymour, and has been located in the Oval Office since 1975. [1]
The reference to an earlier use of the term "grandfather clock" in the "Storyline" section has some serious problems: First, the source text cited is actually Wee Macgreegor, a collection of humorous sketches by "J.J.B."--the copy of Wee Macgreegor digitized by Google was bound with a much earlier edition of translations of Ovid by various hands (including John Dryden, thus the strange "Ovid ...