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repeater
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Definition:a mechanical watch which chimes the time at the press of a button
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She made no difficulties about consenting, but she wanted to know what o'clock it was again, and requested me to make my repeater strike once more.
Prosper Merimee. Carmen (Mary Loyd translation)
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"True." They rode along silently for a long weary time. Coggan carried an old pinchbeck repeater which he had inherited from some genius in his family; and it now struck one.
Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
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And his watch is a gold repeater, and worth a hundred pound if it's worth a penny.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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By her side there stands a fat tabby cat, with a gilt toy-repeater tied to its tail, which "the boys" have there fastened by way of a quiz.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The Devil in the Belfry (1839)
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