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/sˈɛntənəl/ Listen

noun

Sentinel n.

One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry. "The sentinels who paced the ramparts."

Watch; guard. (Obs.) "That princes do keep due sentinel."

(Zool.) A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; called also sentinel crab.

verb

Sentinel v. t. (past & past part. sentineled or sentinelled; pres. part. sentineling or sentinelling)

To watch over like a sentinel. "To sentinel enchanted land." (R.)

To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.

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Etymology of 'Sentinel'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sentinel" Quotes from Famous Books

... the voice I hear On the winds of the western sea? Sentinel, listen from out Cape Clear And say what the voice may be. 'Tis a proud free people calling loud to ...

— Poems Every Child Should Know - The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library • Various

... the rugged and rocky shore was fringed with virgin forest. He had reached the thick and shady "bush" which covered the isthmus, where the dew of the morning still lay cool on leaf and frond, and the great black boles of the forest giants stood sentinel amid the verdant undergrowth, when he overtook a girl who was walking ...

— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace

... loyal, so sturdy a little sentinel at her post. The kind-hearted baggage-man came in and strove to get her to go with him to his cottage "a ways up the road," where his wife and little ones were waiting tea for him; but she shook her head and ...

— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King

... gowns" of the rustic maidens; the "burns," clear as glass; the mossy stones; the peeps between the trees; the depth of the shadows; the corn-cutting or "shearing," when a patch of yellow oats broke the purple shadow of the moor; Ben-y-Ghlo standing like a mighty sentinel commanding the course of the Garry, as when many a lad "with his bonnet and white cockade," sped with fleet foot by the flashing waters, "leaving his mountains to follow Prince Charlie;" Chrianean, where the eagles ...

— Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen V.1. • Sarah Tytler

... and Nicolette were holding this parley together, the town's watchmen were coming down a street, with swords drawn beneath their cloaks, for Count Garin had charged them that if they could take her, they should slay her. But the sentinel that was on the tower saw them coming, and heard them speaking of Nicolette as they went, and threatening ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 2 • Charles Dudley Warner

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