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Timekeeper

noun

(sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed. Synonym: timer.

A clerk who keeps track of the hours worked by employees.

A measuring instrument or device for keeping time. Synonyms: horologe, timepiece.

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"Timekeeper" Quotes from Famous Books

... retiring to rest at nine at all seasons, this great man owed his ability to accomplish mighty labours during his long and illustrious life. He was punctual in everything and made everyone about him punctual. So careful a man delighted in always having about him a good timekeeper. In Philadelphia, the first President regularly walked up to his watchmaker's to compare his watch with the regulator. At Mount Vernon the active yet punctual farmer invariably consulted the dial when returning ...

— Heroes Every Child Should Know • Hamilton Wright Mabie

... clear enough which leg of the tripod is going to break down here. I could tell you exactly what the difficulty is;—which would be as intelligible and amusing as a watchmaker's description of a diseased timekeeper to a ploughman. It is enough to say, that I found just what I expected to, and that I think this attack is only the prelude of more serious consequences, —which expression means you very well ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various

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