The change of watches. Also, the person relieving a particular station. Also, a fresh detachment of troops, ordered to replace those already on duty. In fortification, the total height of the crest of the parapet above the bottom of the ditch.
·noun The elevations and surface undulations of a country. II. Relief ·noun The height to which wor...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; ...
·noun Some as Bas-relief. ...
One who turns out sluggishly to relieve the watch on deck. (See one-bell.) ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
One who turns out speedily to relieve the watch before the sound is out of the bell. ...
On the western side of Bartholomew Close, at No. 61, south of the Church of St. Bartholomew the Grea...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.