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Definition of Night watch
1. Noun. A watch during the night (as from midnight to 8 a.m.).
Definition of Night watch
1. Noun. a watch kept on some premises, or on a town, by guards during the night ¹
2. Noun. the guards on such a watch ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Night Watch
Literary usage of Night watch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Second Visit to the United States of North America by Charles Lyell (1849)
"Before retiring to rest, I engaged with the keeper of the boat that he should
appoint a good night-watch, and an hour after dark, I was awakened by the loud ..."
2. Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ by Alfred Edersheim (1881)
"To the end of the night watch.—How does Rabbi Eliezer mean this ? ... The signs
of this thing are as follows : In the first night watch the ass brays, ..."
3. Historical Records of New South Wales by Frank Murcott Bladen (1892)
"... I had placed the night-watch), "that he considered a soldier l>eing stopped,
when not committing any unlawful act, as an insult offered to the corps, ..."
4. The Old Masters of Belgium and Holland: Les Maîtres D'autrefois by Eugène Fromentin (1882)
"THE night watch. You know how the night watch is placed. ... I shall astonish no
one by saying that the night watch has no charm, and the fact is without ..."
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