Associations to the word «Deathwatch»

Wiktionary

DEATHWATCH, noun. A vigil beside a dying person

DEATHWATCH, noun. One who guards a condemned person before execution.

DEATHWATCH, noun. A deathwatch beetle.

DEATHWATCH BEETLE, noun. Any of various beetles of the family Anobiidae that bore into wood and make a tapping sound.

DEATHWATCH BEETLES, noun. Plural of deathwatch beetle

DEATHWATCH, noun. Minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers.

DEATHWATCH, noun. Bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death.

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