Usually means: Guard duty during nighttime hours.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word night watch:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. night watch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. night watch: Collins English Dictionary
  3. night watch: Vocabulary.com
  4. night-watch, night watch: Wordnik
  5. night-watch, night watch: Wiktionary
  6. night watch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. night watch: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Night watch, night watch, the night watch: Dictionary.com
  9. Night Watch (Discworld), Night Watch (Lukyanenko novel), Night Watch (Russian novel), Night Watch (computer game), Night Watch (disambiguation), Night Watch (painting), Night Watch (video game), Night Watch, Night-watch, Night watch, The Night Watch (Russian novel), The Night Watch (Waters novel), The Night Watch (album), The Night Watch (painting), The Night Watch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. night watch: Rhymezone
  11. night-watch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. night watch: FreeDictionary.org
  13. night watch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. night watch: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Night Watch: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See night_watching as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (night watch)

noun:  A watch kept on some premises, or on a town, by guards during the night.
noun:  One or more of the guards on such a watch.
noun:  One of the watches kept on a marine vessel.
noun:  The sailors standing such a watch.

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