Search for crossword answers and clues
Short period of Navy duty
Answer for the clue "Short period of Navy duty ", 8 letters:
dogwatch
Alternative clues for the word dogwatch
Word definitions for dogwatch in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dogwatch \Dog"watch`\, n. (Naut.) A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p. m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, p. m. --Totten.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. either of two short watches: from 4-6 pm or 6-8 pm
Usage examples of dogwatch.
Now aboard ships would be the first afternoon dogwatch, a two-hour period lasting from 4:00 P.
While we crept away in the dark to shoot ice hares, Mace was standing dogwatch over the camp.
Marine stepped forward to strike one bell in the first dogwatch - a cracked and tinny sound.
Evening meal was served at 1715 so that the men on the second dogwatch could eat before going on deck and those with the first dogwatch could relieve them in the chow line.
Nantahala, and when the first dogwatch came on duty, she was back on patrol, part of the ping line off smoldering Okinawa.
Rojer joined the Columbia in the middle of ship night, just before the dogwatch came on.
Marlowe had explained that dogwatches had been invented to allow crews to be rotated.
Raschid decided, deep in the dogwatches, when he heard the fumbling at his door.
But Number Eleven meant working through the dogwatches, when all other hands had packed up for the day.
That's four bells, sir, seeing as how the dogwatches are only two hours apiece.
That’s four bells, sir, seeing as how the dogwatches are only two hours apiece.
Throughout the last dogwatch of Sunday, therefore, and in what few moments of leisure the forenoon and afternoon watches of Monday allowed, the captains of the guns and their crews titivated their piece, making sure that all blocks ran free, that all crows, worms, sponges, handspikes and other instruments that ought to be there were there in fact, smoothing their already well-smoothed roundshot, gently swabbing the name painted over the gun-port: Towser, Nancy Dawson, Spitfire, Revenge.