Definitions for night-watch

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Night-Watch is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 276 anagrams from letters in night-watch (-acghhinttw).

Definitions for night-watch

noun

  1. a watch or guard kept during the night.
  2. a person or the persons keeping such a watch.
  3. Usually, night watches. the periods or divisions into which the night was divided in ancient times.
  4. a painting (1642) by Rembrandt.

Origin of night-watch

before 1000; Middle English; Old English

Examples for night-watch

Rise, Jerry, you shall not keep a night-watch for a fortnight.

He desired the night-watch, who were with him, to wait outside.

The first record of these was made by McLean, when on night-watch on March 22.

A voice in loud, commanding tones called to the night-watch.

Since that night-watch at Pine Tree Ranch, he had been a different man.

Often in a night-watch did my thoughts recur to Julia Sumner.

She was sure no harm had chanced—the knight was sleeping, she fancied, after his night-watch.

The night-watch and the singing is over; she must have heard him, but she gave no sign.

He listened for the step of the policeman on night-watch, because he did not wish to be seen.

So she determined upon the wake, the night-watch of Freya, as the child calls it.

Word Value for night-watch
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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