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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

;

pl.

Sentires

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[Probably from OF.

senteret

a little patch; cf. F.

sentier

path, and OF.

sente

. See

(Mil.)

A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.

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.

Noun.

1. [See Sentinel.]

2. Guard; watch; the duty of a sentines.

O'er my slumbers sentry keep. Brown.