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    SENTRY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated eventplay

    Synonyms:

    lookout; lookout man; picket; scout; sentinel; sentry; spotter; watch

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("sentry" is a kind of...):

    security guard; watcher; watchman (a guard who keeps watch)

    Credits

     Context examples: 

    I sought no shelter, therefore, but the sky; and toiling into Chatham,—which, in that night's aspect, is a mere dream of chalk, and drawbridges, and mastless ships in a muddy river, roofed like Noah's arks,—crept, at last, upon a sort of grass-grown battery overhanging a lane, where a sentry was walking to and fro.

    (David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

    Tired though we all were, two were sent out for firewood; two more were set to dig a grave for Redruth; the doctor was named cook; I was put sentry at the door; and the captain himself went from one to another, keeping up our spirits and lending a hand wherever it was wanted.

    (Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

    I never in my life saw men so careless of the morrow; hand to mouth is the only word that can describe their way of doing; and what with wasted food and sleeping sentries, though they were bold enough for a brush and be done with it, I could see their entire unfitness for anything like a prolonged campaign.

    (Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)


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