Category:Sentry

Sen"try, n.; pl. Sentires. Etym: [probably from of. senteret a little Patch; cf. F. sentier path, and of. sente. See sentinel.]

1. (mil.)

Defn: 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.