Search Result for "sentry box":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a small shelter with an open front to protect a sentry from the weather;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sentry \Sen"try\, n.; pl. Sentires. [Probably from OF. senteret a little patch; cf. F. sentier path, and OF. sente. See Sentinel.] 1. (Mil.) A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel. [1913 Webster] 2. Guard; watch, as by a sentinel. [1913 Webster] Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother, sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Sentry box, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his post, and shelter him from the weather. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sentry box n 1: a small shelter with an open front to protect a sentry from the weather
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

18 Moby Thesaurus words for "sentry box": Nissen hut, Quonset hut, booth, crib, gatehouse, hut, hutch, kiosk, lean-to, outbuilding, outhouse, pavilion, shack, shanty, shed, stall, tollbooth, tollhouse