a. Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical. [ 1913 Webster ]
Their services are clocklike, to be set
Backward and forward at their lord's command. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
a. & adv. in the same direction as the hands of a clock rotate, as viewed from in front of the clock face; -- said of that direction of a rotation about an axis, or about a point in a plane, which is ordinarily reckoned negative. Also said of the direction of a spiral, in which case the term
adj.
a. & adv. in the same direction as the hands of a clock rotate, as viewed from in front of the clock face; -- said of that direction of a rotation about an axis, or about a point in a plane, which is ordinarily reckoned negative. Also said of the direction of a spiral, in which case the term