night watch

Other forms: night watches

Definitions of night watch
  1. noun
    a watch during the night (as from midnight to 8 a.m.)
    synonyms: graveyard watch, middle watch, midwatch
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    type of:
    watch
    a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty
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