[f. CLOCK sb.1]
1. trans. To time by the clock.
1883. Standard, 31 March, 3/5. He … was ‘clocked’ to do it in some of the shortest times.
1888. Athenæum, 29 Sept., 412/3. That ‘this race was run in 1 minute 4 seconds and a half.’… In ‘Baily’s Racing Register’ … nothing at all is said about this extraordinary ‘clocking.’
2. Bell-ringing. To sound a bell by pulling the clapper with a rope; to CLAPPER.
1872. Ellacombe, Bells of Ch., i. 25. Bells are sometimes chimed by what is called ‘clocking’ or ‘clappering’ them; that is, by hitching the rope round the flight or tail of the clapper, so as to pull it athwart against the side of the bell.
1872. J. T. Fowler, Bells, Sacristy, ii. 137. ‘Clocking’ ought to be put a stop to everywhere, and never allowed.
