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setting the watch
The military night guard or watch at the evening gun-fire. Naval watches are not interfered with by ...

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Setting
·noun Something set in, or inserted. II. Setting ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Set>>. III. Setting ·noun Th...

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setting
The operation of moving a boat or raft by means of poles. Also, arranging the sights of a gun, or po...

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Watch
·vt To <<Tend>>; to <<Guard>>; to have in keeping. II. Watch ·vi To serve the purpose of a watchman...

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watch
The division of the ship's company into two parties, one called the starboard, and the other the lar...

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watch and watch
The arrangement of the crew in two watches. ...

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setting-pole
A pole pointed with iron, used for propelling vessels or boats up rivers, in shoal water. ...

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over-setting
The state of a ship turning upside down, either by carrying too much sail or by grounding, so that s...

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setting pole
A pole, generally pointed with iron, forced into the mud, by which boats and barges are moored in sh...

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setting-up
Raising a ship from her blocks, shores, &c., by wedges driven between the heels of the shore and the...

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Anchor watch
·add. ·- A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor. ...

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Watch meeting
·add. ·- A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year. ...

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Watch House
At the south-east corner of St. Sepulchre's Church Yard on the north side of Snow Hill (Strype, ed. ...

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dumb watch
A venereal bubo in the groin. ...

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afternoon-watch
The men on deck-duty from noon till 4 P.M. ...

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anchor-watch
A subdivision of the watch kept constantly on deck during the time the ship lies at single anchor, t...

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comparison watch
The job-watch for taking an observation, compared before and after with the chronometer. ...

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dog-watch
The half-watches of two hours each, from 4 to 6, and from 6 to 8, in the evening. By this arrangemen...

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first watch
The men on deck-duty from 8 P.M. till midnight. ...

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hack-watch
, or job-watch (which see). ...

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harbour-watch
A division or subdivision of the watch kept on night-duty, when the ship rides at single anchor, to ...

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job-watch
, or hack-watch , for taking astronomical sights, which saves taking the chronometer on deck or on...

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larboard-watch
The old term for port-watch. The division of a ship's company called for duty, while the other, the ...

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middle-watch
The portion of the crew on deck-duty from midnight to 4 A.M. ...

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morning watch
Those of the crew on watch from 4 to 8 A.M. ...

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quarter-watch
A division of one-fourth of the crew into watches, which in light winds and well-conducted ships is ...

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watch-bill
The pocket "watch and station bill," which each officer is expected to produce if required, and inst...

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watch-glasses
The half-hour glasses employed to measure the periods of the watch, so that the several stations the...

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watch-tackle
A small luff purchase with a short fall, the double block having a tail to it, and the single one a ...

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Setting-up exercise
·add. ·- Any one of a series of gymnastic exercises used, as in drilling recruits, for the purpose o...

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heaving and setting
Riding hard, pitching and sending. ...

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Old Watch House, Bishopsgate
On the west side of Bishopsgate, south of St. Botolph's Bishopsgate Churchyard. "Ye olde Watch Hous...

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Watch House, Barbican
At the northern end of Red Cross Street at its junction with the Barbican (Rocque, 1746). Removed i...

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Watch House, Bishopsgate
See Old Watch House. ...

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Watch House, Minories
Removed 1830, when the system of parochial watching was superseded by the establishment of the polic...

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call the watch
This is done every four hours, except at the dog-watches, to relieve those on deck, also by pipe. "A...

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half-watch tackle
A luff purchase. (See watch-tackle.) ...

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keeping a watch
To have charge of the deck. Also, the act of being on watch-duty. ...

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muster the watch
A duty performed nightly at 8 P.M., and repeated when the watch is relieved up to 4 A.M. ...

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midshipman's watch and chain
A sheep's heart and pluck. ...

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watch, chain, and seals
A sheep's head And pluck. ...

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battle the watch, to
To shift as well as we can; to contend with a difficulty. To depend on one's own exertions. ...

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mate of a watch
The senior or passed midshipman is responsible to the officer of the watch. He heaves the log, inser...

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officer of the watch
The lieutenant or other officer who has charge of, and commands, the watch. ...

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cosmical rising and setting of the heavenly bodies
Their rising and setting with the sun. ...

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