watch and watch

noun

The regular alternation in being on watch and off watch of the two watches into which a ship's crew is commonly divided.

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nounwatch and watch (plural not attested)
  1. no pluralnauticalThe regular alternation in being on watch and off watch of the two watches into which a ship's crew is commonly divided.

    And Mr. Pike, for practically all of his sixty-nine years, has stood his watch-and-watch, with many a spill-over of watches into watches.

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