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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A man who is employed to stand guard or keep watch.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A person set to keep watch; specifically, a sentinel; a guard; one who guards the streets of a city by night; also, one set to keep guard, as over a building in the night, to protect it from fire or thieves.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A guard who keeps watch

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.
  2. n. Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a guard who keeps watch

Examples

  • “When a watchman is absent, or remiss, or bribed, the stream is turned out of its course, and every one helps himself or fills his cistern.”

    Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia

  • “One of the most important functions of the watchman is to be seen from the street with my evil looking dog.”

    Telmex (detached thread)

  • “Approaching the garden wing, he called the watchman twice.”

    Best Russian Short Stories

  • “But her daughter in a fright, called the watchman of the night,”

    Jack Tar

  • “The landlady in a fright, calls the watchman of the night,”

    Jack Tar (2)

  • “I taught the night-yardman my call, so I could get half an hour's sleep now and then between trains, and in case the station was called the watchman would awaken me.”

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1

  • “The watchman is the perceptive faculty, which, gathering the various impressions of the five senses, conveys them to the King, the human soul.”

    Mystics and Saints of Islam

  • “I taught the night yardman my call, so I could get half an hour's sleep now and then between trains, and in case the station was called the watchman was to wake me.”

    Radio Boys Cronies

  • “He had but to call the watchman on its deck, and a small boat would come to him in”

    The Prince of India — Volume 02

  • “The watchman was a fine-looking fellow: as we were returning from church, on Sunday, he had passed us, well-dressed and well-mounted, and as he raised his hat, to salute us, there was nothing in his manner or appearance, except his color, to distinguish him from a gentleman of good-breeding and fortune.”

    A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy

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