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Definition of Day watch
1. Noun. Workers who work during the day (as 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Day Watch
Literary usage of Day watch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sketch of the History of the High Constables of Edinburgh: With Notes on the by James David Marwick (1865)
"The day watch was appointed to be held from 6 AM till 7 PM, and to consist of
eight men—four whereof were to be placed at the West Port, and four at the ..."
2. Handbook of Mechanical and Electrical Cost Data: Giving Shipping Weights by Halbert Powers Gillette, Richard Turner Dana (1918)
"During the day watch 5610 Ibs. of coal are ... On the day watch 15833 Ibs.
of coal are gravity fed per hr. per ..."
3. American Police Systems by Raymond Blaine Fosdick (1920)
"Mayor Harper's insistence on this new arrangement earned for the " night and day
watch " the name " Harper's Police." Their career, which lasted but five ..."
4. A History of Northumberland, in Three Parts by John Hodgson, John Hodgson-Hinde, James Raine, John Collingwood Bruce (1840)
"day watch—The township of ... to keep a watch of the Crow-cragg with two men on
the day : setters and searchers of the night and day watch of ..."
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