1A person whose job is to guard a building at night.
值夜者，守夜人；夜间警卫员
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They broke into the store and looked for the nightwatchman.
Some trainers have nightwatchmen and some don't.
Male residents were forced to act as nightwatchmen and to help dig trenches.
When the nightwatchman discovered the door unlocked and someone sleeping inside, he turned the key in the lock.
The director, who ran a demolition company, had been standing in for the nightwatchman at the compound.
I was a scab office cleaner during a labor strike of cleaners, nightwatchmen & porters, but I lost the contract when the offices I was cleaning were sabotaged by strikers.
In a struggle the nightwatchman punches him and the accused then kills the nightwatchman.
The plaintiff was the wife of one of three nightwatchmen who had gone to the defendant's hospital after drinking some tea and becoming ill.
Nightwatchmen in Nairobi munch it to stay alert through the dangerous nights in the crime-ridden capital.
The original versions of the York Waits also worked as nightwatchmen and barely had enough money to mend their costumes.
The four are interrupted by the nightwatchman, Victor.
A nightwatchman later overheard him bragging about his duplicity and arrested him.
He was accused of threatening a nightwatchman with a pistol and was acclaimed as a martyr when he maintained his innocence, refusing to name the true culprit.
He also served, when necessary, in the role of nightwatchman, guarding all the horses and vehicles of the royal carriage and hobby stables.
He moonlights as a nightwatchman at the Meadowbank leisure centre in Edinburgh.
Synonyms
sentry, sentinel, security guard
2Cricket An inferior batsman sent in to bat when a wicket falls just before the end of a day's play, to avoid the dismissal of a better one in adverse conditions.
〔板球〕（比赛将结束前上场的）二流击球手（避免一流击球手在不利局面下被判罚出局）
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The youngster was not always composed but displayed an exuberance reminiscent of Alex Tudor's match-winning innings as a nightwatchman at Edgbaston last year.
If Australia had sent two nightwatchmen out to bat last night, and the rains came before a ball had been bowled, would the same two batsmen have to start the innings this morning?
A few weeks later he achieved a career-best 89 not out for Yorkshire after going in as a nightwatchman.
I think there's a jinx with nightwatchmen in the South African team.
It was nice to get a little bit of a first innings lead and have them one down with the nightwatchman in, so hopefully we can capitalise on that tomorrow and put them under a bit of pressure.