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Meanings of deathwatch in English
Minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers.
Bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death.
Usage of deathwatch in English
1
Around his neck Hel's deathwatch indicated that they had thirty-eight minutes left.
2
Their waiting was a form of deathwatch, but also of nativity.
3
He heard low voices behind him, the deathwatch around her bed.
4
Hel's deathwatch cracked right across the face, freezing the time at thirteen seconds.
5
It sounds to me like the ticking of a deathwatch.
6
The six seconds on the deathwatch had dwindled to three.
7
He was falling rapidly now, eyes shut, still clasping the deathwatch in his hands.
8
Going to the club seemed a clear confirmation that there wasn't a deathwatch going on.
9
He hadn't thought to stand her deathwatch, too.
10
The deathwatch beetle ate wood and nothing more.
11
Ask him about the Battle of Britain or about the deathwatch beetle and he can tell you.
12
The reason for the Treasury's sudden switch in terms was an intensified deathwatch over Fannie and Freddie.
13
She looked at the deathwatch, its hands now separated by nothing but the smallest whisker of time.
14
Perhaps it was only deathwatch plus one.
15
The hands on the deathwatch snapped together.
16
The deathwatch was already counting down.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Deathwatch through the time