sentry

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We found the cough to be a sentry, and behind the sentry were the Devons The attack, as you know, was held up on the line Cuinchy-Givenchy-Violaines; we advanced our headquarters to a house just opposite the inn by which the road to Givenchy turns off.

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  1. noun A guard, especially a soldier posted at a given spot to prevent the passage of unauthorized persons.
  2. noun The duty of a sentry; watch.

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sentinel ·  policeman ·  guard ·  picket ·  patrol ·  scout ·  watchman ·  constable ·  trooper ·  warder ·  corporal ·  sergeant
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  1. Perhaps alteration of obsolete sentrinel, variant of sentinel.

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  1. Formerly also centry, earlier sentrie and in fuller form sentery, prob. a transferred use of Old French senteret, a path (in the same manner as sentinelle, a sentinel, from sentinelle, a path), senteret being diminutive of sentier (Italian sentiero), a path, from Middle Latin semitarius, a path, from Latin semita, a path: see sentinel.
 

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/ˈsɛntri/
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