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S — Sensitivity to Sentry (Part 7 of 7)

2. Guard; watch, as by a sentinel.

Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother, sleep,
Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep.
Dryden.

Sentry box, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his post, and shelter him from the weather.