WATCHWORD, noun [watch and word.] The 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.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.