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Deathwatch

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A vigil beside a dying person
  2. 2
    bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death wordnet
  3. 3
    One who guards a condemned person before execution.
  4. 4
    minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers wordnet
  5. 5
    A deathwatch beetle.

Etymology

From death + watch.

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