The half-hour glasses employed to measure the periods of the watch, so that the several stations therein may be regularly kept and relieved, as at the helm, pump, look-out, &c. (See glass.)
·vt To <<Tend>>; to <<Guard>>; to have in keeping. II. Watch ·vi To serve the purpose of a watchman...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The division of the ship's company into two parties, one called the starboard, and the other the lar...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The arrangement of the crew in two watches. ...
Shades fitted to instruments of reflection for preventing the bright rays of the sun from hurting th...
Formerly a heavy-armed body of foot; more recently applied to Irish infantry soldiers. ...
Two small speculums on one of the radii of a quadrant or sextant; the one half of the fore horizon-g...
·add. ·- A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor. ...
·add. ·- A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year. ...
At the south-east corner of St. Sepulchre's Church Yard on the north side of Snow Hill (Strype, ed. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
A venereal bubo in the groin. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The men on deck-duty from noon till 4 P.M. ...
A subdivision of the watch kept constantly on deck during the time the ship lies at single anchor, t...
The job-watch for taking an observation, compared before and after with the chronometer. ...
The half-watches of two hours each, from 4 to 6, and from 6 to 8, in the evening. By this arrangemen...
The men on deck-duty from 8 P.M. till midnight. ...
, or job-watch (which see). ...
A division or subdivision of the watch kept on night-duty, when the ship rides at single anchor, to ...
, or hack-watch , for taking astronomical sights, which saves taking the chronometer on deck or on...
The old term for port-watch. The division of a ship's company called for duty, while the other, the ...
The portion of the crew on deck-duty from midnight to 4 A.M. ...
Those of the crew on watch from 4 to 8 A.M. ...
A division of one-fourth of the crew into watches, which in light winds and well-conducted ships is ...
The pocket "watch and station bill," which each officer is expected to produce if required, and inst...
In the army, retreat, or the time for mounting the night-guards. ...
A small luff purchase with a short fall, the double block having a tail to it, and the single one a ...
On the west side of Bishopsgate, south of St. Botolph's Bishopsgate Churchyard. "Ye olde Watch Hous...
At the northern end of Red Cross Street at its junction with the Barbican (Rocque, 1746). Removed i...
See Old Watch House. ...
Removed 1830, when the system of parochial watching was superseded by the establishment of the polic...
This is done every four hours, except at the dog-watches, to relieve those on deck, also by pipe. "A...
A luff purchase. (See watch-tackle.) ...
To have charge of the deck. Also, the act of being on watch-duty. ...
A duty performed nightly at 8 P.M., and repeated when the watch is relieved up to 4 A.M. ...
The military night guard or watch at the evening gun-fire. Naval watches are not interfered with by ...
See glass. ...
A sheep's heart and pluck. ...
A sheep's head And pluck. ...
To shift as well as we can; to contend with a difficulty. To depend on one's own exertions. ...
The senior or passed midshipman is responsible to the officer of the watch. He heaves the log, inser...
The lieutenant or other officer who has charge of, and commands, the watch. ...