deathwatch   (TTS Sound)

The noun deathwatch has 2 senses

• booklouse, book louse, deathwatch, Liposcelis divinatorius -- (minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers)


• deathwatch beetle, deathwatch, Xestobium rufovillosum -- (bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death)