| 单词 | dog-watch |
| 释义 | dog-watch Naut.
[Cf. dog-sleep.]
The name given to the two short watches (of two hours each instead of four): see quot. 1840.
1700S. L. tr. Fryke's Voy. E. Ind. 7 Count Maurice's Quarter hath the second Watch, and is also called the Dog-watch. 1836E. Howard R. Reefer xxxii, About two bells in the first dog-watch the first-lieutenant decided upon furling the main-sail. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast iii. 5 The watch from four to eight p.m., is divided into two half, or dog-watches, one from four to six, and the other from six to eight. By this means they divide the twenty-four hours into seven watches instead of six, and thus shift the hours every night.
Restrict Naut. to sense in Dict. and add: 2. transf. A night shift, esp. in a newspaper office; any late or early period of duty; hence, the staff employed on this. slang (chiefly U.S.).
1901F. U. Adams Kidnapped Millionaire x. 135 The building shakes with the rumble of the presses; the ‘dog watch’, detailed to duty in the event of news demanding an extra, opens its game of poker. 1935A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 32/1 Dog watch, employees of gambling house who begin work at midnight. 1939C. Belton Outside Law in N.Z. xv. 89, I congratulated myself I had not forgotten the morning ‘dog watch’ as we called it. This duty occurred about once in ten days. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §521/1 Dogwatch, lobster trick, the shift of newspapermen after the regular editions have gone to press. 1983Truckin' Life Dec. 21/1 Alan and Sue are the hosts and Neville looks after the shop on the dogwatch shift. |
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