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- noun Plural form of
nightwatchman .
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Examples
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If the bumbling nightwatchmen don't catch them, she can summon a mysterious group known as the Dark Men, who can do more than simply kick them out of the store.
Dan Lybarger: DVD Review: Evening Primrose Dan Lybarger 2010
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If the bumbling nightwatchmen don't catch them, she can summon a mysterious group known as the Dark Men, who can do more than simply kick them out of the store.
Dan Lybarger: DVD Review: Evening Primrose Dan Lybarger 2010
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Yet in 2003, it emerged that Pretory, in a frenzy to recruit guards, had taken on nightclub bouncers, dog handlers, nightwatchmen, and other staff with little or no experience of arms or safety procedures.
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Yet in 2003, it emerged that Pretory, in a frenzy to recruit guards, had taken on nightclub bouncers, dog handlers, nightwatchmen, and other staff with little or no experience of arms or safety procedures.
U.K. Faces Of The Week July 10-14, 2006Forbes U.K. Faces Of The Week July 10-14, 2006 Forbes.com staff 2006
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The workmen on the site were packing their tools in their straw bags; the nightwatchmen were coming with their cloaks and food-baskets.
Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981
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But then during the war when they needed nightwatchmen
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This sugar cane is not protected by rural guards or overseers any longer, nor by the nightwatchmen -- what were they called -- "field guards."
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Then other nightwatchmen came up, and there was more light and less confusion and turmoil.
The Liberty Boys Running the Blockade or, Getting Out of New York Harry Moore
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It was now necessary to institute a routine of nightwatchmen, cooks and messmen.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920
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Larwood both scored 90s for England as nightwatchmen at Sydney - surely not?
BBC News - Home 2011
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