Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

clockwise

clockwise , adjective

1.
-- of rotatory motion.

clockwise , adjective and adverb

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 right-handed is more common. Opposite of counterclockwise, and left-handed.