On a Tuesday dogwatch in the third week of November, the thing from the ice came aboard Erebus and took the well-liked bosun, Mr. This supernatural quasi-human dogwatch crew was no match for a magnificent canine using all of his animal instincts unclouded by any other agenda than saving the human whod saved his ass. In the middle of the first dogwatch, cocoanut trees were sighted due south, their tufted heads rising above the water and marking the low-lying atoll beneath. The officers who came to Walker's aid had worked the " dogwatch" or overnight shift with him on the North Side for most of their time with the department.
noun either of two short watches: from 4-6 pm or 6-8 pm. noun by extension A night shift, or other very late or early period of duty.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. noun nautical Aboard a ship, either of the two short two-hour watches that take place between 4 p.m. m.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. 
m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, p.
noun (Naut.) A half watch a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p. See watch.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. noun Nautical, a watch of two hours, arranged so as to alter the watches kept from day to day by each division of the crew. noun Nautical Either of two short periods of watch duty, from 4 to 6 PM or 6 to 8 PM. From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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