Definition of "like clockwork" []

• With perfect regularity and precision; faultless. (adverb)

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• "A score of vivid images stay in my mind: a regiment of Sikh lancers wheeling at the charge in perfect dressing, the glittering points falling and rising as one; a battalion of Jat infantry with moustaches like buffalo horns, white figures with black crossbelts, moving like clockwork as they performed "at the halt on the left form companies"; Dogra light infantry advancing in skirmishing order, the blue turbans suddenly closing in immaculate line, the bayonet points ripping into the sand-bags to a savage yell of "Khalsa-ji!""
• "Horsemen in steel casques that shone like silver in the sunlight rode up and down the elephant line, their sabres drawn; they con-verged like clockwork to. form a lane from the gate for porters who came bearing enormous panniers brimming with coin, preceded by chamberlains who supervised the strapping of the panniers to the howdahs of the third and second elephants, When some of the coins fell in a tinkling \ shower to the dust, there was a great "Oo-h!" from the crowd assembled to see the show; two or three of the horsemen leaned from their saddles, scooping up the rupees and hurling them over the heads of the rigid guardsmen to the mob, who yelled and scuffled for them — for a country that was supposed to be short of blunt, there seemed to be no lack of pice* (* Coppers.) to fling to the beggars."
• "Sure enough, in late afternoon, when we were clearing Tiger Island, up popped a splendid galley, all gold and scarlet, with dragon banners and long ribbons fluttering from her upper works, her twenty oars going like clockwork as she steered to intercept us."