watch guard

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noun

a short chain, cord, or ribbon for securing a watch when worn on the person.

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Origin of watch guard

First recorded in 1825–35

Words nearby watch guard

watcher, watcheye, watch fire, watchful, watch-glass, watch guard, watch it, watchless, watch like a hawk, watch list, watchmaker

How to use watch guard in a sentence

Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.
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People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts.
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A guard is manning the door, which is always kept ajar so she can be monitored.
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I watch every episode alone on my couch and I just sit there and laugh, and laugh.
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Angry Birds at its simplest was the same way, though you wanted to watch things collapse and explode.
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In particular the Governor of Adinskoy offered us a guard of fifty men to the next station, if we apprehended any danger.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801)|Daniel Defoe
I seized the opportunity to watch what I supposed would be a most interesting interview, from behind a curtain.
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He produced a watch and studied it frowningly, then dismissed us and the recital of our troubles with a ponderous gesture.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
He is a hypochondriac now and would keep a close watch on his heir's health and habits; you may be sure of that.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
He heard Mohammedans alluding to a Brahmin as a leader—so might a wolf and a snake make common alliance against a watch dog.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy