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A guard who keeps watch
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watchman
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Watchman is a 1988 novel written by Ian Rankin , and is one of the author's earliest works. Originally published in 1988, it was reissued with a new introduction by Rankin in 2004.
WordNet
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n. a guard who keeps watch [syn: watcher , security guard ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Watchman \Watch"man\, n.; pl. Watchmen . One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel. Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night. Watchman beetle (Zo["o]l.), the European dor. Watchman's clock , ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also watch-man , c.1400, "guard, sentinel, lookout" (late 12c. as a surname), figuratively "guardian, protector" (mid-15c.), from watch (n.) + man (n.). Also "person characterized by wakefulness" (mid-15c.).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES night watchman COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN night ▪ Being a night watchman had its compensations, he had to admit. ▪ Thus the state should be mainly a night watchman , a low-profile policeman who ensures the basic ...
Usage examples of watchman.
The Otter is very recognizable, and if any fishing-boat or aviso or watchman on the cliffs sees her standing in, then every soldier and militiaman on the island will be running about, shooting the first thing that stirs.
Two newly sworn watchmen remain behind and almost at once Conrade and Borachio enter.
A spectral shape that might have been a clumpish chunk of solid night, this figure had been waiting until the patrolling watchman passed.
With guards set over the prisoners and watchmen posted at warehouse front and back, Alfred and Van Deef entered the office to report to the queen.
But as the robot bulked beneath the balcony, Moyne pointed to Durand, and the watchmen aimed at the professor.
You said that a watchman had reported seeing the ignis fatuus in that section.
Indeed, it had sometimes been seen through the spyglasses of the watchmen on the parapets of Isse Tower.
Recovering consciousness to find Henry a dead, bullet-riddled hero, Kater had taken it for granted that his fellow watchman was as loyal as himself.
It may have been the gun that Laverock brought to his office when he met up with the watchman.
The Mar family of night watchmen had been policemen serving a Lyar judge.
Whenever this occurred the discovery of a fresh outrage was sure to follow, but, so far, the miscreants had succeeded in baffling not only the police, but also the many farm hands who had formed themselves into a band of volunteer watchmen, determined to bring the cattle maimers to justice.
He lingered for a while before he took his final leave, leaning against the door-post, and laughingly telling how he and some of his brother squires had made a figure of straw dressed in men's clothes, and had played a trick with it one night upon a watchman against whom they bore a grudge.
He heard the Watchman gasp and crawl across the floor, and he looked back to see the man rummaging with frantic speed inside an old mildewed cardboard box.
At other times, watchmen on anchored ships mistook them for mudlarks, and shone lanterns at them, and aimed threats and blunderbusses their way.
He stared as half a dozen watchmen dashed into the octangle and headed up the steps to the Library.