What is "watchings"

Usage examples of "watchings".

Men’s fears, solicitudes, cares, labours, and watchings would all perish in the same moment with the value of money.

Men’s fears, solicitudes, cares, labors, and watchings, would all perish in the same moment with the value of money: even poverty itself, for the relief of which money seems most necessary, would fall.

Such a burden to be left on my hands -- and so much annoyance as she caused me, daily and hourly, with her incomprehensible disposition, and her sudden starts of temper, and her continual, unnatural watchings of one's movements!