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Definition of "night watchman" []

  • A man who serves as a guard during the night. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "night watchman" in a sentence
  • "I went to the telephone and rang up the night watchman at the yard, and told him to go along and warn the tug's engineer that we were putting out in half an hour."
  • "He did not tell her that the old night watchman was dying, two thin walls and half a dozen feet away."
  • "Even the footsteps of the night watchman added only an accented quarter-note to the silence that had become a hum, a lullaby."
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