| 单词 | graveyard watch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgraveyard watch graveyard watch n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > crew > watch > period of a watch > specific morning watch1598 dogwatch1657 dog1893 graveyard watch1927 1927 G. Bradford Gloss. Sea Terms 76/1 Graveyard watch, the middle watch or 12 to 4 a.m., because of the number of disasters that occur at this time. 1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 297 Graveyard watch, the watch from midnight till 4 a.m., so called on account of the silence throughout the ship. 1933 J. H. McCulloch Million Miles in Sail vii. 125 Without this arrangement..the ‘graveyard watch’—or..the middle watch..would fall to the lot of the same men each night. < as lemmas |
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