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anchor watch





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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

It’s quite likely they won’t keep anchor watch when they’re lying snug in a place of this kind.”

From The Greater Power by Dunton, W. Herbert

The ship was then moored with a kedge astern, sails furled, and all hands retired to rest, except an anchor watch.

From A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824 And the journal of a residence of two years on the Mulgrave Islands; with observations on the manners and customs of the inhabitants by Lay, William




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