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Watch and watch

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(Naut.) the regular alternation in being on watch and off watch of the two watches into which a ship's crew is commonly divided.
- Wharton.

See also: Watch



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We pumped watch and watch, for dear life; and it seemed to last for months, for years, for all eternity, as though we had been dead and gone to a hell for sailors.
Once--and it was at night again; for the officers of the Ferndale keeping watch and watch as was customary in those days, had but few occasions for intercourse--once, I say, the thick Mr.
We were to take watch and watch about, however, and the other might sleep if he could; it was not my fault that I did nothing else; it was Raffles who could trust nobody but himself.
 
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