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Sentry box   /sˈɛntri bɑks/   Listen
noun
Sentry  n.  (pl. sentires)  
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."
Sentry box, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his post, and shelter him from the weather.






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"Sentry box" Quotes from Famous Books



... think about five minutes more would do it," one of them said. "Better carry him out, and shove him in that little sentry box of his. When he comes to himself again he won't know but what he has fallen asleep; barring a headache, the little beggar won't be any the ...
— The Mystery of the Four Fingers • Fred M. White



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