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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