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clock down

verb
  1. To tick, buzz or become marked to indicate the passage of time. · I watched the numbers clock down on the bedside alarm clock.
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There was a church-clock down at Woking which struck the quarters, and I thought more than once that it had stopped.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 95 · B2

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