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

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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

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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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