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night watch

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night watch
n.
1. A watch or guard kept during the night.
2. The person or persons on such a watch.
night watch
Noun
1. a watch or guard kept at night for security
2. the period of time this watch is kept
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Noun1.night watchnight watch - a watch during the night (as from midnight to 8 a.m.)
graveyard watch, middle watch, midwatch
watch - a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty
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He heard the horses munching hay, then he heard the peasant and his elder boy getting ready for the night, and going off for the night watch with the beasts, then he heard the soldier arranging his bed on the other side of the barn, with his nephew, the younger son of their peasant host.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
"Dear D'Artagnan," said the prelate, "my friendship resembles, in a degree, the solicitude of that night watch whom we have in the little tower of the mole, at the extremity of the quay.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Jehan de Harlay, equerry guardian of the office of chevalier of the night watch of the city of Paris
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
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