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Example sentences for: watchman

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c) chokidar `watchman,' from Hindi cauki `police station' and Persian dar; and
The bank's initial reaction had been to investigate the watchman, Christoph Meili, for violating Swiss banking secrecy rules.
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.
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]'!
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.