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Watchmaker :: Watchmaker (n.) One whose occupation is to make and repair watches.

Oversight :: Oversight (n.) Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision.

Mainspring :: Mainspring (n.) The principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism, especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gunlock which impels the hammer. Hence: The chief or most powerful motive; the efficient cause of action..

Sleepy :: Sleepy (n.) Characterized by an absence of watchfulness; as, sleepy security..

Telltale :: Telltale (n.) A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted..

Strict :: Strict (a.) Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention..

Oversee :: Oversee (v. t.) To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook.

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) The fusee of a watch.

Tutor :: Tutor (n.) One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing..

Forester :: Forester (n.) One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.

Bull''s-eye :: Bull's-eye (n.) A small and thick old-fashioned watch.

Noctograph :: Noctograph (n.) An instrument or register which records the presence of watchmen on their beats.

Repeating :: Repeating (a.) Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch..

Eyeservant :: Eyeservant (n.) A servant who attends faithfully to his duty only when watched.

Abide :: Abide (v. t.) To wait for; to be prepared for; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time..

Jealous :: Jealous (a.) Zealous; solicitous; vigilant; anxiously watchful.

Bezel :: Bezel (n.) The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set..

Sentinel :: Sentinel (n.) Watch; guard.

Dextrally :: Dextrally (adv.) Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally..

Dogwatch :: Dogwatch (n.) A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p. m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, p. m..

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