In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SENTINEL
lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket
(noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Sentinel
A ghost town in California.
A town in Oklahoma.
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Etymology
Noun
sentinel (plural sentinels)
A sentry, watch, or guard.
(obsolete) A private soldier.
(computer science) a unique string of characters recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way; a keyword.
A sentinel crab.
(attributive, medicine, epidemiology) A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).
Verb
sentinel (third-person singular simple present sentinels, present participle (UK) sentinelling or (US) sentineling, simple past and past participle (UK) sentinelled or (US) sentineled)
(transitive) To watch over as a guard.
(transitive) To post as guard.
(transitive) To post a guard for.
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Source: Wiktionary
Sen"ti*nel, n. Etym: [F. sentinelle (cf. It. sentinella); probably originally, a litle path, the sentinel's beat,, and a dim. of a word meaning, path; cf. F. sente path. L. semita; and OF. sentine, sentele, senteret, diminutive words. Cf. Sentry.]
1. One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry. The sentinels who paced the ramparts. Macaulay.
2. Watch; guard. [Obs.] "That princes do keep due sentinel." Bacon.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab.
Sen"ti*nel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sentineled or Sentinelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Sentineling or Sentinelling.]
1. To watch over like a sentinel. "To sentinel enchanted land." [R.] Sir W. Scott.
2. To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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