clepsydra

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Empedocles performed his experiment with a household implement people had used for centuries, the so-called clepsydra or “water thief,” which was used as a kitchen ladle.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

When you feed him have a full clepsydra handy and start it when he begins to eat.

From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas

So far as we at present know there were four forms of time-measuring instruments known to antiquity—the sun-dial, the clepsydra or water clock, the hour-glass, and the graduated candle.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry

Anxious to turn the channel of her meditations in another direction, she rose from her seat to examine the clepsydra.

From Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by Reynolds, George W. M. (George William MacArthur)

Either slow like the dripping of the remnants of water in a clepsydra.

From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft