SENTRY

SENTRY. → See WATCHMAN

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Sen″try (?), n.; pl. Sentires (#). [[Probably from OF. senteret a little patch; cf. F. sentier path, and OF. sente. See Sentinel.]] 1. 1. (Mil.) A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.
2. 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.