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midwatch

n. (context nautical English) A watch kept from midnight until four o'clock in the morning.

WordNet
midwatch

n. a watch during the night (as from midnight to 8 a.m.) [syn: graveyard watch, middle watch, night watch]

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.