Anchor watch

(Naut.) A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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I felt painfully that I--a stranger--was doing something un- usual when I directed him to let all hands turn in with- out setting an anchor watch. I proposed to keep on deck myself till one o'clock or thereabouts.

"Very well, sir." Out- side the cuddy he put his head in the second mate's door to inform him of my unheard-of caprice to take a five hours' anchor watch on myself.

Then I reflected that I had myself peremptorily dismissed my officers from duty, and by my own act had prevented the anchor watch being formally set and things properly attended to.

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The Tahitians can keep an anchor watch just as aboard ship.

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A bow-wow is good on a scow when all hands sleep alongside the dock or in an anchor watch."

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With our brilliant leaders, Ana and Louis on anchor watch, we all slept peacefully.