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/naɪt wˈɑtʃmən/ Listen

Night watchman

noun

A watchman who works during the night.

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"Night watchman" Quotes from Famous Books

... the blue vase packed in excelsior and reposing in a stout cardboard box, Bill Peck entered a restaurant and ordered dinner. When he had dined he engaged a taxi and was driven to the flying field at the Marina. From the night watchman he ascertained the address of his pilot friend and at midnight, with his friend at the wheel, Bill Peck and his blue vase soared up into the moonlight and ...

— The Go-Getter • Peter B. Kyne

... guiltily about. It was a night watchman. He stepped slowly out to the mortar box as he spoke, and ...

— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine

... the night watchman, who had just come on duty. Ned knew him, for the man, James Rafferty, had once been employed as a porter in the bank of ...

— Frank Roscoe's Secret • Allen Chapman

... to make the hole big enough not only to hold the treasure they wished to deposit there, but the body of one of the crew,—who was buried with the valuables in order that his spirit might act as a day and night watchman to frighten away people who might happen to be digging in that ...

— Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts • Frank Richard Stockton

... more to see you. Here we are in town. The whole village sends greetings! From Anton the stable-boy—he is now head man—to the old night watchman whose horn you once hung up on the top of the tower. Oh, what a pleasure ...

— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various

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