Either of two short watches on a ship (4–6 or 6–8 p.m.).
（船上值班的）两小班之一（下午4至6点或下午6至8点）
Example sentencesExamples
The dogwatches last only two hours each so the same sailors aren't always on duty at the same time each afternoon.
These dogwatches are really good; I could get used to two hours of work and with that half your day's graft done.
In addition to the night watches there were the so-called dogwatches with a man in the tower and, in case of fog or a snowstorm, there was daytime beach patrol.
The forenoon of each day was taken up cleaning and servicing the aircraft, but in the afternoon and during the dogwatches different sports contests were arranged.
On dogwatches he conferred lengthily with the reporter, back now with the most complete report on wartime England yet made by an American.
The latter half of the first dog watch found Hornblower next to McMasters, officer of the first dogwatch.
On blockade duty individual captains could alter the watch routine by splitting the period from 4 P.M. to 8 P.M. into two 2-hour watch segments called dogwatches.
Definition of dogwatch in US English:
dogwatch
noun
Either of two short watches on a ship (4–6 or 6–8 p.m.).
（船上值班的）两小班之一（下午4至6点或下午6至8点）
Example sentencesExamples
The latter half of the first dog watch found Hornblower next to McMasters, officer of the first dogwatch.
The dogwatches last only two hours each so the same sailors aren't always on duty at the same time each afternoon.
In addition to the night watches there were the so-called dogwatches with a man in the tower and, in case of fog or a snowstorm, there was daytime beach patrol.
On dogwatches he conferred lengthily with the reporter, back now with the most complete report on wartime England yet made by an American.
These dogwatches are really good; I could get used to two hours of work and with that half your day's graft done.
The forenoon of each day was taken up cleaning and servicing the aircraft, but in the afternoon and during the dogwatches different sports contests were arranged.
On blockade duty individual captains could alter the watch routine by splitting the period from 4 P.M. to 8 P.M. into two 2-hour watch segments called dogwatches.