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Definition of Sentry
1. Noun. A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event.
Generic synonyms: Security Guard, Watcher, Watchman
Derivative terms: Look Out, Spot, Watch
Definition of Sentry
1. n. A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.
Definition of Sentry
1. Noun. A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sentry
1. one who stands guard [n -TRIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sentry
Literary usage of Sentry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1863)
"As my spirit made its entry On the shore beyond the sentry, Of the sentry standing
ever Gaunt and grim beside the river, At the bridge that passes over, ..."
2. Technique of Modern Tactics: A Study of Troop Leading Methods in the by Paul Stanley Bond, Michael Joseph McDonough (1916)
"Better results are usually obtained by concentrating the patrols in a few of the
larger bodies, instead of attaching extra men to sentry squads and cossack ..."
3. History of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770: Consisting of the Narrative by Frederic Kidder, John Adams (1870)
"Then I passed down King street, and saw the sentry at the Custom-house with his
bayonet charged, 'dodging it about as if pushing at the boys, who seemed to ..."
4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"For the wine was old and the night is cold, An' the best we may go wrong,
So, 'fore 'e gits to the sentry-box, You pass the word along. ..."
5. A Military Dictionary: Or, Explaination of the Several Systems of Discipline by William Duane (1810)
"They are not to suiter any light to remain, or any fire to be made near their
posts in the night-time ; neither is any sentry to be relieved, ..."
6. Representative One-act Plays by British and Irish Authors by Clark, Barrett Harper, 1890- (1921)
"FIRST sentry. It is like to thunder or the fall of a dynasty. ... FIRST sentry.
He rows in his golden barge with ambassadors or whispers with captains ..."
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