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anchor watch
noun as in graveyard shift
noun as in night shift
noun as in swing shift
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If the vessel was at anchor in a roadstead, he had to keep his two-hour anchor watch the same as the rest of the crew.
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He sent the hands below at ten o'clock, saying he would keep the anchor watch himself.
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The ship was then moored with a kedge astern, sails furled, and all hands retired to rest, except an anchor watch.
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Then the forecastle hands cast lots who should keep the first anchor watch.
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I had the honour of keeping an anchor-watch in company with a grum old Swede, as we lay in the Hudson.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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