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Dog Watch
Dog Watch
Dog Watch : Phrases
Meaning:
Method to ensure that the same men do not do the same watch every day.
Example:
Origin:
The dog-watch was the pair of two hour afternoon shifts put into the normal sequence of four hourly stints in order to ensure that the same men did not do the same watch every day. In this way they dodged around or the shifts were docked.
