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deck watch

noun

  1. (on a ship) a precision watch used on deck for navigational purposes to avoid disturbing the chronometer.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of deck watch1

First recorded in 1855–60
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Example Sentences

"After you with the deck watch," I said to the Snotty who was using it.

Small boat with two enlisted men approaching, sir, called out the deck watch of the big battleship Long Island.

Only one officer at a time kept deck watch, and only one engineer officer down below.

It was still Rainey's deck-watch, and at any moment Carlsen might relinquish the wheel back to him as soon as the girl got tired.

We were called up one evening by the deck-watch to see for ourselves a “ball of fire floating up and down above the ice-field.”

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