| 单词 | river-watcher |
| 释义 | > as lemmasriver-watcher e. One who is occupied in watching; a watchman, guard, sentry, or the like. Also with defining word, as river-watcher, night-watcher n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > [noun] > one who waker1382 veilc1390 watch1484 watcher1525 observator1611 eye1837 watch-keeper1900 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xlix. 61 b On ye mountaynes & hylles costyng the see..were set watche men & watchers in dyuers maners. 1838 Bentley's Misc. 3 274 An inspection was immediately carried on with an earnestness worthy of two watchers at a night-telegraph during a time of war. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxii. 203 The heavy footfall of the official watcher of the night. 1884 Manch. Examiner 10 Oct. 5/1 A river watcher..and two boys..lost their lives by the capsizing of a boat. 1896 H. G. Wells Wheels of Chance xvii There are detectives of an inferior description—watchers. 1897 S. R. Crockett Lads' Love xix. 203 The gamekeepers and water-bailiffs—the ‘watchers’ as they were called. 1904 Times 31 Mar. 9/4 Davies had first been an office-boy and was now a watcher. < as lemmas |
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