Definition of “night watchman”

A most ingenious scheme it was to become night watchman of an abandoned theatre in order to dig a tunnel into the vaults of a nearby bank.

Among those who were knocked out, the court heard, was 71-year-old night watchman Alexei Lyubimov.

Each was surrounded by a wall and usually guarded by a night watchman.

He got the, ob as night watchman here so he could have a chance to rob the Third Merchants "Bank.

In 1948, aged twenty-four, he was hired by Covent Garden as the night watchman in Meistersinger.

It was so loud my night watchman , who lives about half a mile away, ran over to see if I was dead.

ONE of his first hairy moments came when he was drafted in to hunt for a robber who had shot dead a night watchman.

The attack by six or seven men occurred about 3 a. m. The night watchman was hit on the head with a hatchet.

With his 11th ball he clipped Wood's off stump, leaving night watchman Hoggard to survive the last couple of overs.