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Night-watch definition

A watching or guarding during the night.
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A watch or guard kept during the night.
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The person or persons on such a watch.
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The person or persons doing such guarding.
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The time of their guarding.
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Any of the periods into which the night was formerly divided for such guarding.
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A watch kept on some premises, or on a town, by guards during the night.
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The guards on such a watch.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
night-watch
Plural:
night-watches

Night-watch Sentence Examples

  • In the evening we did a night watch on the Sooty Tern colony in Mars Bay to determine behavior patterns.

  • Good morrow my masters all - playing music as they performed their night watch duties as well as in civic pageantry.

  • From the ledge on Jurassic scarp the traverse was continued at the same level around the corner under the prow into The Night Watch.

  • From the ledge on Jurassic Scarp the traverse was continued at the same level around the corner under the prow into The Night Watch.

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