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Example sentences for: watchman

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A great many words in Quechua begin with hua- or gua- (used interchangeably), so when the hacienda owner tells his Indian quachimán to keep a sharp lookout on his nightly rounds, neither may realize that the word derives from watchman . And when Mami is persuaded that daughter needs a new sweater and buys her a chompa , neither may think of the long departed Englishwomen whose jumpers brought the word into the language.
But a much larger grouping of coinages bears witnesses to the embryonic pastoral industry: cattle walk, cattle hunting, cattle run, cattle station; stock agent, stock driver, stock establishment, stock horse, stock house, stock hut, stock proprietor, stock property, stock run, stock station; sheep country, sheep downs, sheep establishment, sheep hills, sheep holder, sheep land, sheep master, sheep overseer, sheep owner, sheep proprietor, sheep watchman, sheep yard.
This isn't the first time it took a night watchman to reveal a disgraceful truth fancy people with day jobs knew all about.
c) chokidar `watchman,' from Hindi cauki `police station' and Persian dar; and
In Chile, gasfiter has been adopted and is used to mean `plumber'; a `watchman' is wachiman or guachiman ; and I was temporarily baffled by a headline referring to an event taking place at the Guay , which turned out to be nothing more than the `Y[MCA]'!