Meaning of sentry-box | Babel Free

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

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“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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