Watchman

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  • noun. A man who is employed to stand guard or keep watch.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A person set to keep watch; specifically, a sentinel; a guard; one who guards the streets of a city by night; also, one set to keep guard, as over a building in the night, to protect it from fire or thieves.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.
  • noun. Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.
  • noun. the European dor.
  • noun. a watchman's detector in which the apparatus for recording the times of visiting several stations is contained within a single clock.
  • noun. an apparatus for recording the time when a watchman visits a station on his rounds.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. an instrument having at the end of a handle a revolving arm, which, by the action of a strong spring upon cogs, produces, when in motion, a loud, harsh, rattling sound.
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  • noun. A guard who keeps watch
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a guard who keeps watch
  • Word Usage
    "When a watchman is absent, or remiss, or bribed, the stream is turned out of its course, and every one helps himself or fills his cistern."
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