dogwatch

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From dog +‎ watch, perhaps a calque of German Hundewache.

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dogwatch (plural dogwatches)

  1. (nautical) Aboard a ship, either of the two short two-hour watches that take place between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
  2. (by extension) A night shift, or other very late or early period of duty.
  3. (nautical) A very brief period of naval service.
    • 1972, George Carroll Dyer, The Amphibians Came to Conquer, page 265:
      At that time, Captain Thomas G. Peyton, U.S. Navy, who had only served a dog watch as Captain of the Port at Noumea, New Caledonia, reported for this important billet.

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