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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A booth erected to provide rudimentary shelter to a sentry on his/her post..
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; […]
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Sentry-box means A booth erected to provide rudimentary shelter to a sentry on his/her post..
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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; […]
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