watch-bill

At length every man knows his place on the watch-bill, and we hurry off to the lower deck to look after our more private affairs.

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

“The frigate was short of hands, and they looked upon as a good prize; and in less than a dog-watch we were on the watch-bill, birthed, stationed, hammocks slung, and, moreover, a grinning leaf-turner had us down in Nipcheese’s book, where dead men chew tobacco, Wad.

Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund Anonymous 1829