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middle watch

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Noun1.middle watchmiddle watch - a watch during the night (as from midnight to 8 a.m.)
graveyard watch, midwatch, night watch
watch - a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty


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Only one man knew what had happened to him, and that was me, for, with my own eyes, I saw the skipper tip up his heels and put him over the rail in the middle watch of a dark night, two days before we sighted the Shetland Lights.
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