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Webster 1913 Edition
Sentry
Sen′try
,Noun.
pl.
Sentires
(#)
. 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
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sentry
SEN'TRY
,Noun.
1. [See Sentinel.]
2. Guard; watch; the duty of a sentines.
O'er my slumbers sentry keep. Brown.
Definition 2024
sentry
sentry
English
Alternative forms
Noun
sentry (plural sentries)
- A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.
- (uncountable) Sentry duty; time spent being a sentry.
- (nautical) A form of drag to be towed underwater, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface.
Synonyms
- (nautical drag): kite
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