Word Meanings - PATROL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat. (more info) about, patrol, fr. patte a paw; cf. D. poot paw, G. pfote, and E.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PATROL)

• Sentinel
• Watch
• guardian
• guard
• keeper
• warden
• sentry
• watchman
• patrol
• vedette

Related words: (words related to PATROL)

• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• VEDETTE
  A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger; a vidette. (more info) by vedere to see, L. videre), from It. veglia watch, L. vigilia. See
• WATCHET
  Pale or light blue. "Watchet mantles." Spenser. Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes Dryden.
• WATCHDOG
  A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
• SENTINEL
  A marine crab native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab. (more info) originally, a litle path, the sentinel's beat,, and a dim. of a word meaning, path; cf. F. sente path.
• WATCHHOUSE
  1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• WATCHWORD
  1. A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password. 2. A sentiment
• GUARDER
  One who guards.
• WATCH MEETING
  A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year.
• GUARDANT
  See GARDANT (more info) 1. Acting as guardian. Shak.
• GUARDS
  A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."
• WATCHFUL
  Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful
• GUARDHOUSE
  A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.
• GUARDED
  Cautious; wary; circumspect; as, he was guarded in his expressions; framed or uttered with caution; as, his expressions were guarded. -- Guard"edly, adv. -- Guard"ed*ness, n.
• WATCHTOWER
  A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like.
• WATCHMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make and repair watches.
• KEEPER
  1. One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything. 2. One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners. 3. One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of
• OUTKEEPER
  An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
• COUNTERGUARD
  A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
• INNKEEPER
  An innholder.
• POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
  The keeper of a pound.
• COGUARDIAN
  A joint guardian.
• DEATHWATCH
  A small beetle . 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. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,