An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SENTRY
lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket
(noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sentry (plural sentries)
A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.
(uncountable) Sentry duty; time spent being a sentry.
(nautical) A form of drag to be towed underwater, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface.
A watchtower.
Synonyms
• (nautical drag): kite
Anagrams
• Tyners
Source: Wiktionary
Sen"try, n.; pl. Sentires. Etym: [Probably from OF. senteret a little patch; cf. F. sentier path, and OF. sente. See Sentinel.]
1. (Mil.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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