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sentery

sentery is the obsolete form of sentry.

Meaning of sentry

Noun

sentry (plural sentries)

  1. A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.
    • Additional sentries are keeping watch for any signs of an ambush.2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 213
  2. (uncountable) Sentry duty; time spent being a sentry.
  3. A form of drag to be towed underwater, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface.
    Synonyms:
    kite
  4. A watchtower.
  5. An animal like a marmot tasked with alerting the pack to danger.

Forms of sentery

pluralsenteries

Questions about sentery

What is sentery the obsolete form of?
Sentery is the obsolete form of sentry.

Words near sentery in the dictionary

  1. sententiously
  2. sententiousness
  3. Senter
  4. senteries
  5. Senters
  6. sentery
  7. sentest
  8. senteur
  9. Senthang
  10. senti
  11. sentic

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