watch.

I do not seem to find in connection with the ancients guarding the camp at night, that they had guards outside, distant from the ditches, as is the custom today, which they call the watch.

The Art of War 2003

'Twenty minutes to two,' replied Spigot, holding up a sort of pocket warming-pan, which he called a watch.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

Strike the bell eight, thou Pip! thou blackling! and let me call the watch.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

He could not see the dawn from his windowless cell, but he could hear them call the watch.

Dragons Of Summer Flame Weis, Margaret 1995

She commenced to abuse me, and I grew belligerent, and she called the watch.

Life and Adventures of James Williams, a Fugitive Slave, with a Full Description of the Underground Railroad 1873

"I could hear half a dozen different pipes when they called the watch."

Mr. Midshipman Easy Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848 1873

Strike the bell eight, thou Pip! thou blackling! and let me call the watch.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

Strike the bell eight, thou Pip! thou blackling! and let me call the watch.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

Strike the bell eight, thou Pip! thou blackling! and let me call the watch.

Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

Blaize -- Stephen, hold him while I call the watch.

Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire William Harrison Ainsworth 1843