Meanings
nountime-watch (plural time-watches)
plural time-watches
- Synonym of time detector.
It seems clear—if anything can be clear in a matter so complicated—that carrying out the Federation's idea of abolishing injunctions, would retire the state to a place on the side lines, with nothing to do but hold the time-watch while the combatants fight it out.
1915, The Unpartizan Review - Volume 4, page 393Synonyms: time detector
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nounSynonym of time detector.
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