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Definition: 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.
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2. Guard; watch, as by a sentinel.
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Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother,
sleep,
Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep. --Dryden.
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Sentry box, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his
post, and shelter him from the weather.
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