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Definition of chauncey in English English dictionary
- A male given name, transferred from the surname
- An American surname, of Norman origin from a place name in France
- transferred use of the surname
- Chauncey Jerome
- born June 10, 1793, Canaan, Conn., U.S. died April 20, 1868, New Haven, Conn. U.S. inventor and clockmaker. In 1824 he designed a popular bronze looking-glass clock, and he formed a company that soon became the leading U.S. clockmaker. He invented the one-day brass movement, an improvement over the wood clock. Applying mass-production techniques, he flooded the U.S. with low-priced brass clocks, which quickly spread to Europe and so astonished the English that "Yankee ingenuity" became a byword
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/ˈʧônsē/ /ˈʧɔːnsiː/
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