Obs. rare–1. [f. WATCH v. + -MENT.] A task of watching.
1740. Richardson, Pamela, I. 203. However said she, all is well now; because my Watchments are now over, by my Master’s Direction…. Why, Mrs. Jewkes, said I, is all this fishing about for something,… if there be an end of your Watchments, as you call them?
