anchor watch
Example Sentences
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And, in 35 hours on the anchor watch, Cronkite committed only one embarrassing blooper by confusing Crooner Tony Martin with Tony Bennett.
From Time Magazine Archive
A kind of anchor watch had been chosen by straws.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
He had offered to take the anchor watch.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
Fortunately, they did not meet the anchor watch, who was probably asleep.
From The Boy Pilot of the Lakes Nat Morton's Perils by Webster, Frank V.
If he’d hailed anchor watch loud enough, George would have gone off for him.
From The Greater Power by Dunton, W. Herbert
