Noun:

காவலாள்,

watchmen's Usage Examples:

watchmanil this time, the towns had merely employed a few watchmen to patrol the streets and call out the time and weather.

In addition, the village watchmen or chaukidars, a primitive institution paid from local sources but to some extent incorporated in the general system, aggregated about 700,000; while a special force of military police, numbering about 20,000 under officers seconded from the army, is maintained along the frontier, more especially in Burma.

watchmanity would appoint watchmen who would work in shifts, so that the people were continually under guard.

They are Nature's watchmen--links which connect the days of animated life.

supernumeraryecords for the City of Canterbury show that in 1787 there were 9 watchmen, including two supernumeraries.

night watchmanolice came into being in Brighton, 1810 Town Act authorized Town Commissioners to appoint night watchmen.

The early records for the City of Canterbury show that in 1787 there were 9 watchmen, including two supernumeraries.

The watchmen appointed by parishes were useless, inadequate, inefficient and untrustworthy, acting often as accessories in aiding and abetting crime.

watchmantch committee resolved that all the men should become watchmen under the control of an inspector with the day policing divided among them.

watchmane with power The voice of watchmen on the tower!The watchmen appointed by parishes were useless, inadequate, inefficient and untrustworthy, acting often as accessories in aiding and abetting crime.

The latter, about the time of Elizabeth's succession, expressed his hope that the bishops would become pastors, labourers and watchmen; and that the great riches of bishoprics would be diminished and reduced to mediocrity; that, being delivered from courtly and regal pomp, the bishops might take care of the flock of Christ.

smitesmote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

Synonyms:

watcher, watch, lookout, guard, patroller, sentry, port watcher, bank guard, private security force, security force, security guard, sentinel, picket, night watchman, scout, lookout man, portwatcher, fire watcher, spotter,

Antonyms:

refrain, unfasten, employer,