Word Meanings - ANCHORWATCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor.

• Anchoritess
  An anchoress.
• Nightingale
  A small, plain, brown and gray European song bird (Luscinia luscinia). It sings at night, and is celebrated for the sweetness of its song.
• ANCHORETICANCHORETICAL
  Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret.
• Anchorless
  Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
• Nightish
  Of or pertaining to night.
• ANCHORLIGHT
  The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern and
• Nightjar
  A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker.
• Watching
  of Watch
• ANCHORSHOT
  A shot made with the object balls in an anchor space.
• Detailed
  of Detail
• Nightless
  Having no night.
• Watchdog
  A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
• ANCHORSPACE
  In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.
• Anchoring
  of Anchor
• Detailing
  of Detail

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