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Security guard for the hours of darkness
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nightwatchman
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In the sport of cricket , a nightwatchman is a lower-order batsman who comes in to bat higher up the order than usual near the end of the day's play. The nightwatchman's job is to maintain most of the strike until the close of play (remaining in overnight, ...
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n. 1 Someone who guards a premises at night. 2 (context cricket English) A batsman who is sent in to bat higher than his usual position near the end of a day's play (when light is poor), in order to protect better batsmen.
Usage examples of nightwatchman.
Army—he was the last man from Kansas drafted to serve in Vietnam but never was sent—and a fruitless layover in graduate school, he found a job as the nightwatchman in a Stokely Van Camp pork and beans factory.
Matsui's two nightwatchmen had retreated to the back room to resume standing guard over money and records.
In this way the gang avoided violence, and the nightwatchmen augmented their meagre wages.
One of the nightwatchmen, Conan noted, probably come to relieve the gate guard.
Instead she woke in the dead of night, in those dark standstill hours where no one but thieves and nightwatchmen were about, feeling as if she'd been running through the streets.
One of the nightwatchmen, by the flickering lantern near his outstretched hand.
There were no nightwatchmen in this part of Tarv, to swing glaring lanterns into the faces of late loiterers and ask questions.