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Dogwatch vs Bounder - What's the difference?

dogwatch | bounder |

As nouns the difference between dogwatch and bounder

is that dogwatch is (nautical) aboard a ship, either of the two short two-hour watches that take place between 4 pm and 8 pm while bounder is something that bounds or jumps.

dogwatch

English

(wikipedia dogwatch)

Alternative forms

* dog-watch

Noun

(dogwatches)
  • (nautical) Aboard a ship, either of the two short two-hour watches that take place between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
  • (by extension) A night shift, or other very late or early period of duty.
  • * 1946 , Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 22:
    • The girls we knew were all on the dogwatch , from four to twelve in the morning.

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    bounder

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that bounds or jumps.
  • (UK, dated) A dishonourable man; a cad.
  • A social climber.
  • That which limits; a boundary.
  • (UK, obsolete, colloquial) A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet

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