sentry-box

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A guard in his sentry-box.

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sentry-box (plural sentry-boxes)

  1. A booth erected to provide rudimentary shelter to a sentry on his/her post.
    Coordinate term: guard post
    • 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:
      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; […]

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