midwatch
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of midwatch
Example Sentences
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They describe foes as varied as Axis powers, homesickness, covid-19 — and even the New Year’s midwatch itself, as a writer lamented in 1966:
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022
Grant Telfer, the operations officer, was eyeing the rotation schedule for the watch shift from midnight to 4 a.m., known as the midwatch, for New Year’s Day.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022
Seaman first class Daryl Weathers, 19, a doctor’s son from Los Angeles, was in the radar room on the bridge, standing the midwatch — midnight to 4 a.m.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2018
In Chatham, England, midwatch sentries at ancient St. Mary's Naval Barracks complained of being bothered nightly by a one-legged mariner of Lord Nelson's era.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was not sorry when I was called above for midwatch.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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