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sentry-boxes

sentry-boxes is the plural of sentry-box.

Meaning of sentry-box

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

Questions about sentry-boxes

What is sentry-boxes the plural of?
Sentry-boxes is the plural of sentry-box.

Words near sentry-boxes in the dictionary

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

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