sentry : Idioms & Phrases


Sentry box

  • noun a small shelter with an open front to protect a sentry from the weather
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  • a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his post, and shelter him from the weather.
Webster 1913

sentry duty

  • noun the duty of serving as a sentry
    guard; guard duty; sentry duty.
    • he was on guard that night
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sentry go

  • noun the duty of serving as a sentry
    guard; guard duty; sentry duty.
    • he was on guard that night
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