Definition of "watchkeeper" [watchkeeper]

• A lookout (person who keeps watch) (noun)

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• "Still, I had a nice conversation over the VHF with the watchkeeper, who told me that they were also headed to Australia, to Port Kembla, which is only just south of Sydney."
• "Is Melanie Phillips the sole watchkeeper on this most crucial of issues? sean"
• "During one particular period he called his constant companion my watchkeeper, because he had entrusted him with getting his watch going when it stopped, since he didn't have enough money to have it repaired."