sentry-box
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Alternative forms
- sentry box
Noun
sentry-box (plural sentry-boxes)
- A booth erected to provide rudimentary shelter to a sentry on his/her post.
- Coordinate term: guard post
- 1765, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XIX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume VIII, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 75:
- As for chronology, I own, Trim, continued my uncle Toby, sitting down again coolly in his sentry-box, that, of all others, it seems a science which the soldiers might best spare, was it not for the lights which that science must one day give him, in determining the invention of powder; […]
Translations
booth for a sentry
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Further reading
sentry box on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Category:Sentry boxes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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