单词 | out-sentry |
释义 | out-sentryn. Now rare. A sentry placed at a distance ahead. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > guard > outpost out-guard1598 out-sentry1691 out-sentinel1705 out-picquet1811 1691 T. Spencer True Relation Proc. against French 10 Having given Orders to the Out-Centries that were placed towards the Fort, to fire without Challenging at any who should come that way. 1741 in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1842) II. 116 This deponent..[was] bound with ropes..for refusing to cry ‘all is well’, when he was an out-sentry. 1776 Battle of Brooklyn ii. 19 I would not be relieved by a Captain, so I went to sleep at one Bergen's, from whence the out-sentries were relieved. 1786 J. Gillies Hist. Anc. Greece I. iii. 100 The order of their guards and watches was highly judicious; they employed, for their security, out-sentries and vedettes. 1840 W. G. Simms Border Beagles II. xxii. 306 He did not fear but they would be advised of the approach of the enemy by at least a dozen out-sentries. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xxii. 220 We're just to bide here with these, which are his out-sentries, till they can get word to the chief of my arrival. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1691 |
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