| 单词 | stand watch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstand watch ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > for guard duty guarda1513 counterguard1523 stand watch1525 presidy1529 body of guard1579 court of guarda1592 perdu1622 sentry1705 field-watch1797 watch-post1852 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cixxi. f. cvvv/2 He made gret brute and ranne bayeng fyrst to the stande watch. 1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 100 It were requisite that a stande watch be maintayned within and about the Ordinance. 1591 G. Clayton Approoued Order Martiall Discipline i. 41 With your stand watch in the midst. to stand watch b. The duty, post or office of watchman or sentinel. to stand watch, to stand a or one's watch: to keep watch, perform the duty of a watch. Now chiefly Nautical, to take part in the duty of a ‘watch’ during a prescribed time. Also in Bible phrase to stand upon one's watch. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > watch or keep guard [verb (intransitive)] to stand upon one's watch1535 sentinel1593 to lie (also stand, stay, etc.) perdu1607 to mount (the) guard1669 to keep guard1712 sentry1910 to watch a person's back1974 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > [noun] > one who watches or keeps guard > office or duty of waitership1485 watch1535 watchmanshipa1607 wardership1897 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Neh. vii. 3 Whyle they are yet stondinge in the watch, the dores shall be shut and barred. And there were certayne citesyns of Ierusalem appoynted to be watch~men, euery one in his watch. 1550 in Southampton Court Leet Rec. (1905) I. i. 15 Wherfore yt ys comaunded that every man paye his watches for the welthe and Savegard of the towne as [etc.]. 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades vii. 132 They to their supper do departe, some to the watch do hye, And some their tyred limmes to reste on couches downe do lye. 1611 Bible (King James) Hab. ii. 1 I will stand vpon my watch, and set mee vpon the towre, and will watch to see what he will say vnto me. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 12 Welcome Iago, we must to the watch . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 335 There is besides in Roderigoes letter How he vpbraides Iago, that he made him, Braue me vpon the watch . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. v. 31 As I did stand my watch vpon the Hill I look'd toward Byrnane, and anon me thought The Wood began to moue. 1724 A. Ramsay Vision in Ever Green I. iv My wakryfe mynd..still stude watch. 1883 Cent. Mag. 26 911/1 Fenton stood the first watch. 1890 Chambers's Jrnl. 21 June 389/1 He's the ship's carpenter, and stands watch as second officer. < as lemmas |
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