sentry-box
[f. sentry n.1 + box n.2 13.]
A small wooden structure in which a sentry may stand at his post in bad weather.
| [1716 Gay Trivia ii. 176 The thoughtless Wits..Who 'gainst the Centry's Box discharge their Tea.] 1728 Chambers Cycl., Centry Box, a wooden Cell, or Lodge, made to shelter the Centry..from the Injuries of the Weather. 1753 Hanway Trav. (1762) I. ii. xv. 65 Sentry boxes are placed at certain distances. 1827 Syd. Smith Cath. Quest. Wks. 1859 II. 127/1 What is really possessed of a country so subdued? four or five yards round a sentry-box, and no more. 1877 Field Exerc. Infantry 372 On the approach of the relief, a Sentry will place himself in front of his Sentry-box. |