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sentires |
1 definition 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.
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