death watch in English
noun
1
a vigil kept beside a dead or dying individual.
When his friend Sir Joseph Hooker's young son fell ill, Darwin drew on his own agonizing deathwatch of Annie to comfort him.
2
a small beetle with larvae that bore into dead wood and structural timbers, causing considerable damage. The adult makes a sound like a watch ticking that was formerly believed to portend death.
noun
- booklouse
- deathwatch beetle
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1. 24 In 1954 he completed the restoration of the chapel, which was ravaged by death-watch beetle.