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/wˈɑtʃmən/ Listen

noun

Watchman n. (pl. watchmen)

One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.

Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.

Watchman beetle (Zool.), the European dor.

Watchman's clock, a watchman's detector in which the apparatus for recording the times of visiting several stations is contained within a single clock.

Watchman's detector, or Watchman's time detector, an apparatus for recording the time when a watchman visits a station on his rounds.

Watchman's rattle, an instrument having at the end of a handle a revolving arm, which, by the action of a strong spring upon cogs, produces, when in motion, a loud, harsh, rattling sound.

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Etymology of 'Watchman'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Watchman" Quotes from Famous Books

... morning, the starry sky—or so it seemed, for the drowsy watchman had not observed the approach of any cloud—brimmed over in a deluge; and for three days it rained without remission. The islet was a sponge, the castaways sops; the view all gone, even the reef concealed behind the curtain of the falling water. The ...

— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... visit the same night. The custom of the Casa Grande was that after dark a watchman patrolled all night, giving a long blast every quarter of an hour on one of these same doleful Mexican whistles, to show that ho was not sleeping on his rounds. This was for the outside. Inside the house, pour surcroit de precaution, a servant came round to see that every one was in his ...

— Anahuac • Edward Burnett Tylor

... well-brushed riding-coat, the master key is in our itching palm! We'll lurk until midnight, then in the dark room we will unlock the drawer. If we are heard, softly as we step in the silence of the night—if a watchman come—the worse for the watchman! We carry pistols, and the butt of one against his forehead will do the work. For we are bold, gentlemen, we are as bold as Caesar or Buonaparte! We won't be stopped—we won't! We're for 'Over the ...

— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston

... watch them close at night For fear they'll make a rush, And break away in headlong flight Across the open bush; And by the camp-fire's cheery blaze, With mellow voice and strong, We hear the lonely watchman raise The Overlander's song: 'Oh! it's when we're done with roving, With the camping and the droving, It's homeward down the Bland we'll go, and never more we'll roam;' While the stars shine out above us, Like the eyes of those who love us — The eyes of those who watch and ...

— Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses • Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson

... is therefore to us rather "the groaning of this angel," this "watchman of the LORD" at the national subjection, the fiery martyrdoms, "the sobs and tears of the poor oppressed;" than the expression of any fundamental principle on which GOD has constituted human society. Intellectually, there is partiality, forgetfulness ...

— The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment - of Women • John Knox

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