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Night watch

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A watch kept on some premises, or on a town, by guards during the night.
  2. 2
    a watch during the night (as from midnight to 8 a.m.) wordnet
  3. 3
    One or more of the guards on such a watch.
  4. 4
    One of the watches kept on a marine vessel.
  5. 5
    The sailors standing such a watch.

Etymology

From Middle English nightwacche, nyȝt-wacche, nyghte wacche, nyȝt wacche, from Old English nihtwæċċe, a variant of nihtwacu (“nightwatch”), equivalent to night + watch. Cognate with West Frisian nachtwacht (“nightwatch”), Dutch nachtwacht, nachtwake (“nightwatch”), German Nachtwache (“nightwatch”) and Nachtwächter (“night watchman”), Swedish nattvakt (“nightwatch”), Icelandic næturvakt (“nightwatch”).

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