dog-watch

plural dog-watches

1. alternativeAlternative form of dogwatch.

   They had plenty of the best food and quite as much rum as was good for them. In the dog-watches they were allowed and even encouraged to enjoy themselves in the manner known on board ship as "skylarking."

   1911, Arthur Hamilton Clark, The Clipper Ship Era 1843-1869, Chapter 2

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   I held the next watch (which should have been the mate's) till midday, eating both breakfast and lunch behind the sheltering jiggermast. And I held all afternoon, and through both dog-watches, my dinner served likewise on the deck.

   1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLIV