About The Word Sentry
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Sentry
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What's The Definition Of Sentry?
[n] a person employed to watch for something to happen
Synonyms | Synonyms for Sentry: lookout | lookout man | picket | scout | sentinel | spotter | watch Related Terms | Find terms related to Sentry: See Also | security guard | watcher | watchman Sentry In Webster's Dictionary \Sen"try\, n.; pl. {Sentires}. [Probably from OF.
senteret a little patch; cf. F. sentier path, and OF. sente.
See {Sentinel}.]
1. (Mil.) A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.
2. Guard; watch, as by a sentinel.
Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother,
sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep.
--Dryden.
{Sentry box}, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his
post, and shelter him from the weather.
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