Meaning of SENTRY
| Pronunciation: | | 'sentree
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[n] a person employed to watch for something to happen |
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SENTRY is a 6 letter word that starts with S. |
| | Synonyms: | | lookout, lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, spotter, watch |
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| | See Also: | | security guard, watcher, watchman | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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