anchor watch
Example Sentences
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And, in 35 hours on the anchor watch, Cronkite committed only one embarrassing blooper by confusing Crooner Tony Martin with Tony Bennett.
From Time Magazine Archive
A kind of anchor watch had been chosen by straws.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
He had offered to take the anchor watch.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
The men were divided into two watches, but all were told that, with the exception of two stationed as an anchor watch, they could turn in till tide turned.
From Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California by Paget, H. M. (Henry Marriott)
The men would alternate on an anchor watch and keep the fish "chummed" up during the night.
From El Diablo by Groesbeck, Dan Sayre
