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单词 to stand watch
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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.
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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.
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