watchman

Converse of object

• appoint: Each city would appoint watchmen who would work in shifts, so that the people were continually under guard.
• employ: Up until this time, the towns had merely employed a few watchmen to patrol the streets and call out the time and weather.
• become: The watch committee resolved that all the men should become watchmen under the control of an inspector with the day policing divided among them.
• include: These include the watchmen, the shepherds and several other households.
• patrol: Two watchmen continually patrolled the village at night to guard against crime or the risk of fire among the closely packed wooden buildings.
• watch: Faulkes, Zen ( 1993 ) Who watches the watchmen?

Preposition: for

morning: My soul waits for the Lord More than the watchmen for the morning; Indeed, more than the watchmen for the morning.

Adjective modifier

• musical: By 1585 their numbers had risen to four and their duties had been established as musical night watchmen and civic entertainers.
• faithful: Let us be faithful watchmen, that their blood be not upon our heads.
• old: Although referred to as constables, these four men were in fact on a par with the old town watchmen.

Preposition: on

tower: A voice with power The voice of watchmen on the tower!

Modifies a noun

waketh: Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain " ( Ps.

Possessives

hut: One behind a watchman's hut at the end of Lawrence Street, a man who lodged in Lawrence Street, was killed.

Preposition: at

gate: Judith called out from afar to the watchmen at the gates, " Open, open the gate!

Noun used with modifier

• night: Tom Dean, the night watchman, arrived back at Winsford works having left his bike at the hall.
• town: Although referred to as constables, these four men were in fact on a par with the old town watchmen.