death watch

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Definition of death watch in English Turkish dictionary

deathwatch
idam mahkumu bekçisi
deathwatch
{i} tahtakurdu
deathwatch
ölüm bekleyiş
deathwatch
(isim) tahtakurdu
English - English
small insect that digs holes and lives in old furniture and makes mysterious clicking sound (in the past it was believed that this insect could foretell death)
death-watch beetle
A woodboring beetle, namely a beetle whose larvae are xylophagous
death-watch beetles
plural form of death-watch beetle
deathwatch
a vigil besides a dying person
deathwatch
minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers
deathwatch
one who guards a condemned person before execution
deathwatch
The guard set over a criminal before his execution
deathwatch
a deathwatch beetle
deathwatch
bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death
deathwatch
A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ, which makes a similar but fainter sound; called also deathtick
deathwatch
{i} vigil by the bed of a person who is dying
deathwatch
A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species)
deathwatch
By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death
death watch
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