Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sentry"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. Guard; watch, as by a sentinel.
Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother,
sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep.
--Dryden.
{Sentry box}, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his
post, and shelter him from the weather.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Kite \Kite\, n. (Naut.)
A form of drag to be towed under water at any depth up to
about forty fathoms, which on striking bottom is upset and
rises to the surface; -- called also {sentry}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sentry
n : a person employed to watch for something to happen [syn: {lookout},
{lookout man}, {sentinel}, {watch}, {spotter}, {scout},
{picket}]
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