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Definition of Midwatch
1. Noun. A watch during the night (as from midnight to 8 a.m.).
Definition of Midwatch
1. a watch on a ship between midnight and 4 A.M. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Midwatch
Literary usage of Midwatch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Coming General Election: Hints to Electors in Regard to Ecclesiastical by Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control (1856)
"20, are from "The midwatch," one of the many excellent Songs by Richard Brinsley
Sheridan, ... The Song of the midwatch, though ascribed to RB Sheridan, ..."
2. Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Falconer by John Aikin (1843)
"The night-birds shriek'd from the creviced roof, And the fitful blast sung shrill ;
But ere the midwatch of the night, Were all things hush'd and still. ..."
3. Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Falconer edited by John Aikin (1841)
"The night-birds shriek'd from the creviced roof, And the fitful blast sung shrill ;
But ere the midwatch of the night, Were all things hush'd and still. ..."
4. Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Falconer by John Aikin, John Frost (1838)
"But in the midwatch of the night, When hush'd was every sound, Faint, doleful
music struck his ear, As if waked from the hollow ground. ..."
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