Crossword clues for watchman
watchman
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Watchman \Watch"man\, n.; pl. Watchmen.
One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.
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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, a watchman's detector in which the apparatus for recording the times of visiting several stations is contained within a single clock.
Watchman's detector, or Watchman's time detector, an apparatus for recording the time when a watchman visits a station on his rounds.
Watchman's rattle, an instrument having at the end of a handle a revolving arm, which, by the action of a strong spring upon cogs, produces, when in motion, a loud, harsh, rattling sound.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. One set to watch; a person who keeps guard, especially one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.
WordNet
n. a guard who keeps watch [syn: watcher, security guard]
Wikipedia
Watchman or Watchmen may refer to:
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Watchman (law enforcement), a member of a group who provided law enforcement
- Security guard or watchman, a person who watches over and protects property, assets, or people
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Watchmen, a 1986 comic book limited series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
- Watchmen (film), the 2009 film adaptation of the comic book
- Watchmen: The End Is Nigh, a video game prequel to the film
- Watchmen: Motion Comic, a TV miniseries adaptation that aired in 2008.
- The Watchmen (band), a Canadian rock band
- Go Set a Watchman, the second novel by author Harper Lee
- Watchman (novel), a 1988 thriller novel by Ian Rankin
- The Watchmen (novel), a novel by John Altman
- Sony Watchman, a line of portable television devices produced by Sony
- Watchman Island, a small sandstone island in the Waitemata Harbour of Auckland, New Zealand
- Watchman camera, a system of cameras for controlling traffic and deterring speeding in the United Kingdom
- Watchman device, a type of left atrial appendage occlusion system to prevent blood clot formation in certain heart rhythm disturbances
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, a destroyer of the British Royal Navy launched in 1917 and sold in 1945 for scrapping
Watchmen were groups of men, usually authorized by a state, government, or society, to deter criminal activity and provide law enforcement. Watchmen have existed in various guises throughout the world and were generally succeeded by the emergence of formally organised policing.
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.
"Watchman" is an American Christian hymn, published in 1845 in The Southern and Western pocket harmonist.
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.