sentry
sen tree
- n a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- The sentry called a sergeant and after much whispering the little man was released, promptly sneaked through the second gate and was pounced on again, once more whispered, was .
- Two hundred yards from the empty sentry box they discovered a rifle, and the huge fur headpiece of the sentinel, lying like some dead beast in the bushes.
- The mystery of the guardsman who vanished in his scarlet uniform three weeks ago from a sentry post at Buckingham Palace (PTI, May 13)the first palace sentry in British .