Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gun fired at the changing of the watch, as in a fortress or garrison, or on board a man-of-war.
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Examples
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I ran noiselessly, and seized the watch-gun which stood always loaded by the companionway.
The Purple Cloud 1906
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At the sound of the morning watch-gun, the camp presented a most distressing spectacle.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 452 Volume 18, New Series, August 28, 1852 Various 1841
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