He'll watch the horologe a double set
If drink rock not his cradle."
--William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 2, Scene 7
horologe (noun) = a clock
My alarm horologe goes off at 6:30 AM. I'm tempted to call it a horrorloge.

Musings and oozings (mostly about words) by Michael Gates
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