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–noun, plural -men.

1.	a person who keeps guard over a building at night, to protect it from fire, vandals, or thieves.

2.	(formerly) a person who guards or patrols the streets at night.

[Origin: 1350–1400; late ME; see watch, man¹

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—Related forms

watch·man·ly, adjective

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n. A man who is employed to stand guard or keep watch.

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watchman
noun
a guard who keeps watch

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ˈwatchman noun

(often ˌnight-ˈwatchman) a man employed to guard a building etc against thieves, especially at night
Example: The bank-robbers shot the (night-)watchman.

Arabic:	حارِس، خَفير
Chinese (Simplified):	警卫员（尤指夜间值班人员）
Chinese (Traditional):	警衛員(尤指夜間值班人員)
Czech:	strážce
Danish:	vagtmand; vagt; -vagt
Dutch:	bewaker
Estonian:	(öö)valvur
Finnish:	vartija
French:	gardien, *-ienne (de nuit)
German:	der Nachtwächter
Greek:	(νυχτο)φύλακας
Hungarian:	őr(szem)
Icelandic:	varðmaður, næturvörður, vaktmaður
Indonesian:	-
Italian:	guardiano, sorvegliante

Japanese:	夜警
Korean:	경비원, 야경
Latvian:	sargs; apsardze
Lithuanian:	budėtojas, sargas
Norwegian:	vakt(mann); vekter
Polish:	stróż
Portuguese (Brazil):	guarda, vigia
Portuguese (Portugal):	guarda
Romanian:	gardian (de noapte)
Russian:	сторож
Slovak:	strážca
Slovenian:	nočni čuvaj
Spanish:	guardián
Swedish:	vakt, väktare
Turkish:	bekçi

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Watchman

Spring\, v. t. 1. To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant.

2. To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly.

She starts, and leaves her bed, amd springs a light. --Dryden.

The friends to the cause sprang a new project. --Swift.

3. To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.

4. To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.

5. To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.

6. To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in, out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar.

7. To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.

To spring a butt (Naut.), to loosen the end of a plank in a ship's bottom.

To spring a leak (Naut.), to begin to leak.

To spring an arch (Arch.), to build an arch; -- a common term among masons; as, to spring an arch over a lintel.

To spring a rattle, to cause a rattle to sound. See Watchman's rattle, under Watchman.

To spring the luff (Naut.), to ease the helm, and sail nearer to the wind than before; -- said of a vessel. --Mar. Dict.

To spring a mast or spar (Naut.), to strain it so that it is unserviceable.

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