Sentry-box
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sentry-box is a noun meaning A booth erected to provide rudimentary shelter to a sentry on his/her post.
Meaning
A booth erected to provide rudimentary shelter to a sentry on his/her post.
Example Sentences
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; […]
Word Forms
- sentry-boxes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sentry, booth, bunker, safebox, callbox, signalbox.
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