sentery

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A form of sentry — A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.

Scrabble 10

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nounsentery (plural senteries)

plural senteries

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of sentry.

    […] what evasion bear him safe / Through the strict senteries and stations thick / Of angels […]

    1667, John Milton, “Book XLI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 413

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