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English Dictionary: sentry	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for sentry
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sentry n a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event Synonym(s): lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Kite \Kite\, n. (Naut.) A form of drag to be towed under water at any depth up to about forty fathoms, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface; -- called also {sentry}.