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sentry


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Kite  \Kite\,  n.  (Naut.) 
  A  form  of  drag  to  be  towed  under  water  at  any  depth  up  to 
  about  forty  fathoms,  which  on  striking  bottom  is  upset  and 
  rises  to  the  surface;  --  called  also  {sentry}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sentry 
  n  :  a  person  employed  to  watch  for  something  to  happen  [syn:  {lookout}, 
  {lookout  man},  {sentinel},  {watch},  {scout},  {picket}] 




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