Sentires

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sentry \Sen"try\, n.; pl. {Sentires}. [Probably from OF.
     senteret a little patch; cf. F. sentier path, and OF. sente.
     See {Sentinel}.]
     1. (Mil.) A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.
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     2. Guard; watch, as by a sentinel.
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              Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother,
              sleep,
              Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep. --Dryden.
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     {Sentry box}, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his
        post, and shelter him from the weather.
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