Sentires

Sentires
Sentry 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. [1913 Webster]

2. Guard; watch, as by a sentinel. [1913 Webster]

Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother, sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

{Sentry box}, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his post, and shelter him from the weather. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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