Watchtower definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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Than this no better place for a watchtower could be found; a perfect spot for the reflective idler and for the sailorman who, on land, must still be within smell and sound of the sea, and loves that place best which gives him widest prospect This day a solitary figure was pacing backwards and forwards upon the cliff edge, stopping now to turn a telescope upon the water and now upon the town.

—The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

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noun An observation tower on which a guard or lookout is stationed to keep watch, as for enemies, for forest fires, or over prisoners.

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The great wooden watchtower was no longer standing. — FSF,January2008
The open space around the watchtower was littered with bodies, many of them Speck. — Robin Hobb
And Schomburg and the IA'sfm gang of writers concocted what I remember as one of the most fun issues of my stay at the magazine A few years before, Don Wollheim had worked out the perfect cover for a Romance novel: a brooding manor (castle, watchtower, whatever) against a darkening sky. — Asimov'sSF,April-May2007
For his watchtower he chose a honey locust perched on the edge of a broken stone shelf. — THE BLOOD KNIGHT
Nights spent on guard in a 40-foot high plywood watchtower, feeling like a target for the next mortar hit. — Tyee - Home