Watchmen
['wɔtʃmən]
Definition
(pl. ) of Watchman
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Examples
- Within half an hour from the first starting, they were beyond the winking lamps, and the more than winking watchmen, and were out upon a lonely road. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Among the latest inventions are electrical connections with the safe, whereby tampering therewith alarms one or more watchmen at a near station. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- As a number of loafers and hangers-on about the docks threatened injury to Fulton’s Folly, as the building boat was called, he had to engage watchmen to guard his property. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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