† watch-billn.1
Obsolete.
A watchman's bill or halberd.
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watch-bill1665
1665 in J. Raine Depos. Castle of York (1861) 128 He had slaine a monster with one watch bill or broome hooke.
1688 in J. Raine Depos. Castle of York (1861) 284 One James Turpin, who was one of the watch,..endeavoured to putt out the fire with his watchbill.
?c1830 A. Wilson in W. E. A. Axon Folk Song Lancs. (1870) 36 There's snakes an' watchbills, just loike poikes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
watch-billn.2
/ˈwɒtʃbɪl/, U.S. /ˈwɑtʃˌbɪl/, /ˈwɔtʃˌbɪl/ Nautical.
(See quot. 1815.)
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society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [noun] > furnishing with crew > crew lists
portledge bill1668
portage bill1743
station bill1800
fire bill1804
watch-bill1813
1813 Weekly Reg. (Baltimore) 10 July 304/1 The Shannon had a crew of 376 picked men by her watch-bill.
1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Watch-bill, a list of the petty officers, seamen, and marines, of a ship of war, which..points out the station of each man, and what watch he belongs to.
1875 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. (ed. 2) i. 18 This abbreviated table is sufficiently compact to allow of its being copied into the watch-bill.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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