sentry-box en · NOUN
Meanings
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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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sentry box | alternative | lexicographic | |
| sentry-boxes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Translations (23)
de Wachhäuschen (booth for a sentry) · sv skyllerkur (booth for a sentry) · pt guarita (booth for a sentry) · hsb stražowa chěžka (booth for a sentry) · it garitta (booth for a sentry) · ru сторожева́я бу́дка (booth for a sentry) · ja 哨舎 (booth for a sentry) · cmn 崗亭 /岗亭 (booth for a sentry) · pl budka wartownika (booth for a sentry) · hu őrbódé (booth for a sentry) · nl wachthuisje (booth for a sentry) · ru карау́льное помеще́ние (booth for a sentry) · fi vartiokoppi (booth for a sentry) · wa guerite (booth for a sentry) · es garita (booth for a sentry) · no skilderhus (booth for a sentry) · ja 番屋 (booth for a sentry) · bg караулка (booth for a sentry) · de Schilderhaus (booth for a sentry) · fr guérite (booth for a sentry) · cmn 哨所 (booth for a sentry) · sv vaktkur (booth for a sentry) · da skilderhus (booth for a sentry)