sentry-box

noun

A booth erected to provide rudimentary shelter to a sentry on his/her post.

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Meanings

nounsentry-box (plural sentry-boxes)

plural sentry-boxes · alternative sentry box

  1. A booth erected to provide rudimentary shelter to a sentry on his/her post.

    As for chronology, I own, Trim, continued my uncle Toby, sitting down again coolly in his sentry-box, that, of all others, it seems a science which the soldiers might best spare, was it not for the lights which that science must one day give him, in determining the invention of powder; […]

    1765, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XIX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume VIII, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 75

Translations

Bulgarian караулка
  • караулка (karaulka)booth for a sentry
Chinese Mandarin 崗亭 /岗亭, 哨所
  • 崗亭 /岗亭 (gǎngtíng)booth for a sentry
  • 哨所 (shàosuǒ)booth for a sentry
Danish skilderhus
  • skilderhusbooth for a sentry
Dutch wachthuisje
  • wachthuisjebooth for a sentry
Finnish vartiokoppi
  • vartiokoppibooth for a sentry
French guérite
  • guéritebooth for a sentry
German Schilderhaus, Wachhäuschen
  • Schilderhausbooth for a sentry
  • Wachhäuschenbooth for a sentry
Hungarian őrbódé
  • őrbódébooth for a sentry
Italian garitta
  • garittabooth for a sentry
Japanese 哨舎, 番屋
  • 哨舎 (shōsha)booth for a sentry
  • 番屋 (ban'ya)booth for a sentry
Norwegian skilderhus
  • skilderhusbooth for a sentry
Polish budka wartownika
  • budka wartownikabooth for a sentry
Portuguese guarita
  • guaritabooth for a sentry
Russian карау́льное помеще́ние, сторожева́я бу́дка
  • карау́льное помеще́ние (karaúlʹnoje pomeščénije)booth for a sentry
  • сторожева́я бу́дка (storoževája búdka)booth for a sentry
Spanish garita
  • garitabooth for a sentry
Swedish vaktkur, skyllerkur
  • vaktkurbooth for a sentry
  • skyllerkurbooth for a sentry
Cite this entry
APA

sentry-box. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sentry-box

MLA

“sentry-box.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sentry-box. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sentry-box,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sentry-box.

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