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Sentry box   /sˈɛntri bɑks/   Listen
Sentry box

noun
1.
A small shelter with an open front to protect a sentry from the weather.





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"Sentry box" Quotes from Famous Books



... himself a kind of sentry box out of a hollow willow, and as they drew near he put his head out and gave a ...
— Twenty Years After • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... parapet or walk. In two diagonally opposite corners were bastions of round towers, thirty feet high, swelling out so as to command the walls. The main gateway was thirty feet wide and closed by a pair of huge plank doors. Over the gateway there was a sentry box, floating the United States flag. The six-pounder brass cannon of the caravan was mounted upon a wall, on a swivel, to fire in all directions; ...
— Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters • Edwin L. Sabin


Words linked to "Sentry box" :   shelter


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