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sentry-box

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A booth erected to provide rudimentary shelter to a sentry on his/her post.

Equivalents

Españolgarita
Françaisguérite
DeutschSchilderhausWachhäuschen
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Examples

“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; […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

sentry-go Sentul Sentz Senufo Senussi Senussism

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