DOG-WATCH

  

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DOG-WATCH

Date "DOG-WATCH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)


Specialty Definition: DOG-WATCH

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Literature

Dog-watch A corruption of dodgewatch: two short watches, one from four to six, and the other from six to eight in the evening, introduced to dodge the routine, or prevent the same men always keeping watch at the same time. (See Watch.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: DOG-WATCH

Specialty definitions using "DOG-WATCH": Watch on Board Ship. (references)

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Modern Translation: DOG-WATCH

Language Translations for "DOG-WATCH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

kétórás õrszolgálat. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

og-watchday

   

Turkish

  

iki saatlik akşam nöbeti (dogwatch), öksüz vardiya (dogwatch). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DOG-WATCH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dogwatch, watchdog.

Words within the letters "a-c-d-g-h-o-t-w"

-3 letters: cahow, octad, watch.

-4 letters: chad, chao, chat, chaw, chow, coat, coda, dago, dato, dawt, dhow, doat, doth, ghat, goad, goat, gowd, oath, tach, taco, thaw, toad, toga, what, whoa, woad.

-5 letters: act, ado, ago, cad, cat, caw, cod, cog, cot, cow, dag, dah, daw, doc, dog, dot, dow, gad, gat, goa, god, got.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-g-h-o-t-w"
 

+1 letter: watchdogs.

 

+2 letters: dogwatches.

 

+3 letters: watchdogged.

 

+4 letters: watchdogging.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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