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A watch during the night (as from midnight to 8 a.m.)
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midwatch
Word definitions for midwatch in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a watch during the night (as from midnight to 8 a.m.) [syn: graveyard watch , middle watch , night watch ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) A watch kept from midnight until four o'clock in the morning.
Usage examples of midwatch.
They had returned to stand the midwatch after being relieved at the controls by Arv and the other crewmen.
At last, well before the midwatch, Captain Smith calls off the Chase, and they come about again, the wind remaining as it has been, and with what sail they have, they return to the Plymouth Dockyard.