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/sˈɛntri bɑks/ Listen

noun

Sentry n. (pl. sentires)

(Mil.) A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.

Guard; watch, as by a sentinel. "Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother, sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep."

Sentry box, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his post, and shelter him from the weather.

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Etymology of 'Sentry box'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sentry box" Quotes from Famous Books

... think about five minutes more would do it," one of them said. "Better carry him out, and shove him in that little sentry box of his. When he comes to himself again he won't know but what he has fallen asleep; barring a headache, the little beggar won't be any the ...

— The Mystery of the Four Fingers • Fred M. White

... Fr. guerite, a sentry box, can be traced back in the same way to Old Fr. garir (guerir), to save. Cotgrave explains it as "a place of refuge, and of safe retyrall," also "a sentrie, or little lodge for a sentinell, built on high." It is to this latter sense that we owe Eng. garret. ...

— The Romance of Words (4th ed.) • Ernest Weekley

... formed a parapet or walk. In two diagonally opposite corners were bastions of round towers, thirty feet high, swelling out so as to command the walls. The main gateway was thirty feet wide and closed by a pair of huge plank doors. Over the gateway there was a sentry box, floating the United States flag. The six-pounder brass cannon of the caravan was mounted upon a wall, on a swivel, to fire in all ...

— Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters • Edwin L. Sabin

... which was a little opening through which they put our food, when they gave it to us. The wall of each cage, which was opposite that of the other, was made of boards, so that we could not see the sailors nor they us. Outside of the grating which formed one side of the shed, was a sentry box, in which two soldiers kept a continual watch. They could see us all, and did not take their eyes off us ...

— Hair Breadth Escapes - Perilous incidents in the lives of sailors and travelers - in Japan, Cuba, East Indies, etc., etc. • T. S. Arthur

... the duty chargeable was apparently enormous. This I did by distributing twenty-five English sovereigns among various officials, beginning with the acting-governor and ending with a drunken black sweep who sat in a kind of sentry box on the quay. ...

— Marie - An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain • H. Rider Haggard