midwatch
IPA: mˈɪdwɑtʃ
noun
- (nautical) A watch kept from midnight until four o'clock in the morning.
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Examples of "midwatch" in Sentences
- “Sure you can, or at least you ought to if you got the midwatch.”
- Shell craters brim with rainwater, gleaming in the lights of midwatch work crews clearing debris.
- Tonight, as I was reciting my midwatch prayers before taking to my bed, a visitor came to my chambers.
- It was past midwatch now, morning closer than sunset, but the Emissary looked neither tired nor disheveled.
- Kurt, exhausted as always after the midwatch, signed the watch over to Brecht and started for his compartment.
- Coyote had talked to the midwatch TFCC crew and made sure that they all knew the laser incident was strictly hush-hush.
- In the midwatch of this night he happened to rub shoulders with Pierre Fontaine, none other than head man of Karen Sayther's voyageurs.
- It was the still midwatch of a clear moonlight night; the stars, he says, were twinkling as fire in the high vault of heaven: and “Cynthia rinsing her golden locks in Aquarius.”
- The midwatch, two nights after refueling in the Gulf of Oman, and the night after passing the mins of the Pak - istani city, Gwardar: Kurt and Gregor were on the port wing, ostensibly taking star sights.
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