Definitions for: Sentry

[n] a person employed to watch for something to happen

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, spotter, watch

See Also: security guard, watcher, watchman

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