watch gun
English
Noun
watch
gun
(
plural
watch guns
)
(
historical
,
nautical
)
A gun sometimes fired on ship at to mark the start of end of a
watch
.
References
“
watch
”, in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary
, Springfield, Mass.:
G. & C. Merriam
,
1913
,
→OCLC
.