morning watch

noun Nautical.

the watch from 4 a.m. until 8 a.m.

Origin of morning watch

First recorded in 1525–35

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Historical Examples of morning watch

Wasn't I on the morning-watch myself, and beside him four hours of the night before, and turned in at eight bells?
Somehow Good
William de Morgan
Early in the morning-watch a sudden stir of the men on deck woke me, and I bundled up in five minutes' time.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 408, January 1849
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British Dictionary definitions for morning watch

morning watch

noun

nautical the watch between 4 and 8 am

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