sentry box

A small shelter for a posted sentry.

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sentry box

(Military) a small shelter with an open front in which a sentry may stand to be sheltered from the weather

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sen′try box`

a shelter for a sentry.

[1695–1705]

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Noun

sentry box - a small shelter with an open front to protect a sentry from the weather

shelter - protective covering that provides protection from the weather

Translations

sentry box

n → garitta

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He stepped back into the sentry box and spoke through a telephone.

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And it is much to be deplored that the place to which you devote so considerable a portion of the whole term of your natural life, should be so sadly destitute of anything approaching to a cosy inhabitiveness, or adapted to breed a comfortable localness of feeling, such as pertains to a bed, a hammock, a hearse, a sentry box, a pulpit, a coach, or any other of those small and snug contrivances in which men temporarily isolate themselves.

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Grimaud had made himself a kind of sentry box out of a hollow willow, and as they drew near he put his head out and gave a low whistle.

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Filled with fascinating period features, the sentry box porch has a black and white tiled floor and a period front door, leading on to the rest of the house.

The oldest house in Caldy is on the market and it's got some pretty breathtaking gardens; It's been in the same family for four generations and now it could be yours

I remember the gatehouse and sentry box facing the Wergs Road.

Remembering Dutch Forces

We need to remedy this by liberating all factors of production from captivity by proverbially kicking the old guard out of the sentry box, by dissolving captive political constituencies and by re-enacting basic laws that would establish a clear 'master' and 'servant' relationship between us the people and the government respectively.

Pakistan versus entrepreneurship

The pencils were also popular gifts and several good examples include one modelled as a truncheon inscribed "From Sir Charles Wakefield 16.6.26" and another by Mordan as a sentry box, enamelled with a soldier from the 17th Lancers, the reverse inscribed with "A.P.K's compliments 'Royalty' 28 Aug.1895" (PS2,000-PS3,000).

A point of order

class="MsoNormalMr Amayo sought refuge at the sentry box for some minutes and later took to his heels as the MCAs hurled stones at him.

Gunshots, chaos at Kisumu assembly

And Rosi sees the perfect place to hide--in the stone sentry box that once housed the fort's lookout guards.

Rafi and Rosi Pirates

In the short clip, a man seen leaving a taxi is almost immediately tackled to the ground by a guard who bursts out of a sentry box and pins him to the ground.

US expels Russian officials after attack on diplomat in Moscow

I bought her a wand from Sentry Box, a toy shop off Byres Road, Glasgow and we pretended to turn everything pink.

5The last things I bought; The actor, who is appearing in the new tour of The James Plays, has been buying whisky, a magic wand and ham