dogwatch

Example Sentences

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“Me and Smoltz started in September 16 as dogwatch radio team.”

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

I was on the larboard dogwatch this day, and so could observe the positioning of those ships, it appearing that we are preparing for some great action against the town of Norfolk.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

She'd come into stays about the middle of the morning watch, he said, and maybe toward three bells in the second dogwatch they'd have her on the other tack.

From Wide Courses by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)

It was the dogwatch when Tunis Latham entered the eating place, but the dogwatch here was not at the same time of day as aboard ship.

From Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)

The third day after leaving Malta the forecastle hands were congregated on the topgallant forecastle during the dogwatch from six to eight.

From The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century by Runciman, Walter