hunting watch
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hunting watch
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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On the morning of November 11, 1918, Major Keith Officer, an Australian, was watching the minutes go around on his large, old-fashioned hunting watch as he waited for the cease-fire to begin.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
Forth to meet his came a little gold hunting watch from behind the brown veil.
From Wych Hazel by Warner, Susan
And he laid before Willinawaugh a fine gold watch—an English hunting watch, with a double case, and the works were running; doubtless, it was another trophy from the slaughtered officers of Colonel Montgomery's harassed march.
From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Murfree, Mary Noailles
"Since you are so kind, I think I prefer the hunting watch."
From Chester Rand or The New Path to Fortune by Alger, Horatio
Outside it looks like a fifty-guinea hunting watch, open it and you find it's tuppenny-halfpenny gun-metal.
From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various
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