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sentry-box

sentry-box noun: a booth erected to provide rudimentary shelter to a sentry on his/her post.

sentry-box: a booth erected to provide rudimentary shelter to a sentry on his/her post
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Noun

sentry-box (plural sentry-boxes)

  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

sentry-box meaning in Tamil

sentry-box in Tamil

காவல்வீரர் நிலையம்

Forms of sentry-box

pluralsentry-boxes
alternative formsentry box

Questions about sentry-box

What does sentry-box mean?
Sentry-box means a booth erected to provide rudimentary shelter to a sentry on his/her post.
What is sentry-box in Tamil?
Sentry-box in Tamil is காவல்வீரர் நிலையம். See Sentry-box meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sentry-box?
Sentry-box is a noun.
What is the plural of sentry-box?
The plural of sentry-box is sentry-boxes.

Words near sentry-box in the dictionary

  1. sentried
  2. sentries
  3. sentry
  4. sentry post
  5. sentry posts
  6. sentry-box
  7. sentry-boxes
  8. sentry-go
  9. sents
  10. Sentul
  11. Sentz

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