What does keep watch mean?

keep watch

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Frequency: 5.17 in modern English

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"In the afternoon the sun shone hot in their faces, for there were no trees to offer them shade; so that before night Dorothy and Toto and the Lion were tired, and lay down upon the grass and fell asleep, with the Woodman and the Scarecrow keeping watch."

keeps watch (present, singular) keeping watch (participle, present) kept watch (participle, past) kept watch (past)

stand guard

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