sentineln.

/ˈsɛntɪnəl/

Forms: 1500s–1600s centinell, sentinell, 1500s centrinel, ( centronel, centernell, centonell, sentonell, sentnell), 1600s sentronell, sentenel, 1500s–1800s centinel, 1500s– sentinel.

Etymology: < French sentinelle (feminine), sentinel, †watch-tower, < Italian sentinella feminine; Spanish centinela, Portuguese sentinella, are from Italian or French.No convincing etymology of the Italian word has been proposed. The gender renders it probable that it originally denoted either the function of keeping watch (= sense 2), or a sentry-box, watchtower, or the like. Compare spy, scout, guard, the French originals of which are all primarily feminine.

a. = sentry n.¹ 2. to stand sentinel (rarely passive to be set sentinel). †forlorn sentinel, = †sentinel perdu, perdu sentinel: see perdu adj. 1. [The phrases noted above are imitated from French.]

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the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > [noun] > victim-hero

forlorn hopes1539

forlorn fellows1577

forlorn sentinel1579

salamander1705

victim-hero1962

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > [noun] > one who watches or keeps guard

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wardena1250

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outwatch1488

warderc1540

sentinel1579

perdu1639

sentry1650

lookout1662

security man1662

guardman1756

excubitor1775

cockatoo1827

guardsmana1854

dog1870

society > armed hostility > defence > action or duty of sentry or picket > [noun] > watch-post > advanced

sentinel1579

perdu1611

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > guard > sentry

waitc1325

watchc1380

sentinel1579

century1585

rounder1596

sentry1632

vedette1690

1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos iii. viii. 100 [The Scout Master] ought in placing of his night Watches or Sentinels, to vse great consideration.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ix. sig. I3 And he, that points the Centonell his roome, Doth license him depart at sound of morning droome.

1593 M. Sutcliffe Pract., Proc., & Lawes of Armes xxi. 228 No souldier appointed to stand sentinell, shall depart from the place, or sleepe in the place, vpon paine of death.

1598 B. Yong tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 120 The gate was opened to them out of hand by the Centrinels.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 106 Those which are set yet 30 pases farther, are to be single, which of some are improperly called forlorne Sentinels.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. i. 71 I was imploy'd..About relieuing of the Centinels.

1639 Laws & Ordin. War 6 Whoever being set Sentinell by his Officer.., or other Service, shall be found drunk; shall dye for it.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 176 They went all to sleep..without so much as a Centinel placed for their Guard.

1760 Cautions & Advices to Officers of Army 46 By making the Culprit do a double Duty, that is,..making him stand Centinel four Hours instead of two.

1777 J. Cook Jrnl. 6 Nov. (1967) III. i. 243 John Harrison, a Marine, who was Centinel at the Observatory deserted.

1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xxiii. 354 The..officer..having sent out his night patrols, and posted his sentinels .

1832 W. Irving Alhambra II. 179 ‘Who goes there?’ said the centinel at the gate.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 191 The sentinels who paced the ramparts announced that the vanguard of the hostile army was in sight.

1861 Two Cosmos II. iv. i. 6 Cosmo is a great favourite with his regiment... The sentinels always present their arms to him as he passes.

1881 Army Act §6 Every person subject to military law who..Forces or strikes a soldier when acting as sentinel; or..Being a soldier acting as sentinel,..sleeps or is drunk on his post..shall..be liable to [etc.].

b. transferred and figurative. One who or something which keeps guard like a military sentinel.

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1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido ii. sig. C2^v And in this groue..Ile lay Ascanius..: These milke white Doues shall be his Centronels.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. ii. 32 2. Fai. Hence away: now all is well: One aloofe, stand Centinell.

1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 132 The mind having stood long centinell upon serious Thoughts, becomes..sluggish.

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 3. ⁋4 A certain race of men..who stand as centinels in the avenues of fame.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lv. 492 Sir Pitt..had given orders not to be disturbed..—she slipped by the sentinel in livery.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 396 [Bad butter in pastry] thus escapes the very sense which was intended to act as a sentinel to the stomach.

1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert v. 39 The grim cliff on which the castle stands sentinel over the North Sea.

†c. dark sentinel: one employed to keep secret watch upon a person. ? nonce-phr.

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1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. D But..why she would..permit him to goe where and whither he listed, and onely under the Secrecy of a darke sentinell, set over him was..beyond my apprehension.

†2. The occupation, duty or service of a sentinel; chiefly in to keep sentinel. in sentinel, on guard as a sentinel. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > defence > action or duty of sentry or picket > [noun]

sentinel1585

sentry1639

sentinelship1643

picket1713

picket duty1764

lookout duty1831

sentry-go1880

sentry-going1901

sentry duty1917

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > [noun] > as a watchman or sentinel

wardOE

day watchOE

watch1377

watch and ward1390

wakingc1440

scout-watch1464

watching and warding1579

sentinel1585

day ward1597

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escouta1627

sentry1639

watchment1740

wardage1878

sentry-go1880

sentry-going1901

1585 A. Munday tr. L. Pasqualigo Fedele & Fortunio sig. D2 Being his turne as he said for to watch this night, And breaking vp sentinel when it began to be light.

1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 1 Keeping sentinell in the night.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 432 Those that kept the night sentinels.

1612 T. Beard Theatre Gods Judgem. (ed. 2) 287 The murderer being in sentinell, one of his owne fellowes vnawares shot him.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 23 In which Towers there are always some Aadgemoglans in Sentinel.

1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. 1 Thess. v. 8 The Soldiers that..kept centinel.

figurative and in extended use.1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 65 Besides, counsels are not commonly so vnited, but that one keepeth Sentinell over an other.a1633 G. Herbert Priest to Temple (1652) xviii. 73 (heading) The Parson in Sentinell.

†3. A military watchtower for defence of a camp or the walls of a city. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > castle or fortified building > [noun] > tower or watch-tower

towerc897

bastillec1400

bastillion1525

cavalier1562

commander1572

torrion1572

mount1590

sentinel1600

sentry1611

cat1628

torne1637

rondel1686

rounder1774

Martello tower1803

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxv. 550 Many places were..smitten with lightning..and two watchmen in their Sentinels stricken starke dead.

1612–17 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. 200 King Edward who had gotten to a winde-mill hill, beholding as from a Sentinell,..the countenance of the enemy.

1643 Lancash. Valley of Achor 21 The Enemy..fired an house neer the Sentinell.

1643 Lancash. Valley of Achor 25 They fire Houses and Barnes without the sentinell... Thus they heated and smoaked our valiant souldiers from their Sentinell.

†4. (private) centinel: a private soldier. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > common soldier > [noun]

soldiera1300

sergeantc1300

private soldier1566

common soldier1569

private man1651

man1690

(private) centinel1710

single sentinel1721

private1775

single soldier1816

troop1832

ranksman1845

dog soldier1852

ranker1890

other rank1904

mucko1917

squaddie1933

craftsman1942

peon1957

grunt1969

troopie1972

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 5. ⁋8 There were in the ranks of the company..one Unnion a corporal, and one Valentine a private centinel.

1741 in Rep. Comm. Ho. Commons II. 172 (Land Forces, etc.) 70 Grenadiers Coats and Breeches, at 1l. 8s. 630 Centinels ditto, at 1l. 6s.

1744–5–6 in Rep. Comm. Ho. Commons II. 84, 87 Centinels [= ‘Private Men’].

1762 O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash 80 He enlisted himself as a volunteer [in the Dutch army]. Here he underwent all the fatigues of a private centinel.

1797 Monthly Mag. 3 483 He..served as a private centinel under the duke of Marlborough, at..Blenheim.

1815 Articles of War xxi. 68 But Non-commissioned Officers may be discharged as Private Soldiers, and, by the order of the Colonel of the Regiment, or by the sentence of a Regimental Court-martial, be reduced to private Centinel.

1894 C. Walton Hist. Brit. Standing Army 1660 to 1700 xxiii. 417 All soldiers..below the grade of lance-corporal were denominated Privates or more correctly private centinels or private soldiers.

5. Nautical. (See quot. 1904) Cf. sentry n.¹ 5.

ΚΠ

1904 W. Hall Mod. Navigation (1909) 73 The Sentinel is a device for signalling automatically that water of a certain depth has been reached. It is a lead towed behind the ship at a known depth, with gear fitted to it which completes an electric circuit on touching bottom. This circuit contains a bell on board the ship.

Compounds

C1. appositive, quasi-adj.= acting or serving as a sentinel.

sentinel chain n.

ΚΠ

1887 J. Ruskin Præterita II. xi. 396 The most noble view of Mont Blanc granted by any summit of his sentinel chains.

sentinel crab n. a crab of the Indian Ocean, Podophthalmus vigil.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > miscellaneous types > order Podophthalmia > member of

podophthalmian1836

sentinel crab1863

1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 586 The Sentinel-crab, so called from its extreme watchfulness [etc.].

sentinel pile n. Pathology an external hæmorrhoid situated at the lower end of an anal fissure.

ΚΠ

1910 Practitioner Apr. 520 It is probable that the fissure results from the tearing down of one of the anal valves, the free border of which eventually appears at the anus as a rounded œdematous tag—the so-called sentinel pile.

1974 R. M. Kirk et al. Surgery vi. 132 The oedematous skin at the lower end of the fissure protrudes as a ‘sentinel’ pile.

sentinel poplar n.

ΚΠ

1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xxxiv. 466 The two sentinel poplars that guarded the front.

sentinel star n.

ΚΠ

a1658 R. Lovelace To Lucasta in Lucasta: Postume Poems (1659) 11 Like to the Sent'nel Stars, I watch all Night.

C2. Simple attributive.

sentinel duty n.

ΚΠ

1708 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) i. ii. xii. 107 They perform centinel duty on foot.

† sentinel-house n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1621 J. Molle tr. P. Camerarius Liuing Libr. ii. viii. 100 The..rampier of the Picts..at euerie miles end had a..tower.., and watch-towers or sentinell~houses betweene.

† sentinel posture n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1625 G. Markham Souldiers Accidence 24 Your Sentinell Posture.

1642 J. Cruso Order Milit. Watches 61 Every Sentinell must stand on his Sentinell posture.

sentinel-like adj.

ΚΠ

1896 ‘A. St. Aubyn’ Bishop's Delusion 54 The tall white lilies standing sentinel-like on either side the garden path.

sentinel-wise adv.

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sentinelv.

/ˈsɛntɪnəl/

Etymology: < sentinel n.

1. transitive. To stand guard over, to watch as a sentinel. literal and figurative.

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society > armed hostility > defence > action or duty of sentry or picket > guard as sentry [verb (transitive)]

sentinel1594

sentry1820

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > watch or keep guard over [verb (transitive)] > as a sentry

sentinel1594

sentry1820

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. G3^v To wake the morne, and Centinell the night.

1598 S. Rowlands Betraying of Christ 28 The watchfull bird that centinels the morne.

1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy ii. 27 All the powers That centinell iust Thrones, double these guards About your sacred Excellence.

1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 1st Pt. i. 9 Wee'll centinel their safety. This place Ile guard.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 18 And mountains, that like giants stand, To centinel enchanted land.

1868 B. J. Lossing Hudson (new ed.) 48 The winding road was..sentineled by lofty pines.

1894 W. C. Russell Good Ship ‘Mohock’ I. 138 The fellow on deck sentinelling the hatch let us see he was on guard.

†2. intransitive. To act as sentinel, stand sentinel, keep guard. literal and figurative. Obsolete. rare.

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society > armed hostility > defence > action or duty of sentry or picket > act as sentry or picket [verb (intransitive)]

sentinel1593

to stand sentry1728

picket1775

sentry1910

to walk guard1930

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > watch or keep guard [verb (intransitive)]

to stand upon one's watch1535

sentinel1593

to lie (also stand, stay, etc.) perdu1607

to mount (the) guard1669

to keep guard1712

sentry1910

to watch a person's back1974

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 17 My vigilance shoulde haue sentineld for all your sleepes.

1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 7 And all the watchmen, that so nimbly runne, And centinel about the walled towers.

3. transitive. To furnish with or as with a sentinel or with sentinels.

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society > armed hostility > defence > action or duty of sentry or picket > guard as sentry [verb (transitive)] > provide with guards or sentry

warnish1532

sentinel1656

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > watch or keep guard over [verb (transitive)] > furnish with a guard or warder

sentinel1656

warder1849

1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 33 The Lord Fairfax..wisely Sentinel'd and Perdu'd it to prevent Surprisals.

1820 W. Scott Monastery III. iii. 73 They have centinelled your door with armed men.

1864 Daily Tel. 1 Aug. A wide course had been prepared duly roped off and sentinelled with police.

1901 Daily Chron. 4 Oct. 7/1 Three passes led into our valley, and I gathered they were all well sentinelled.

4. To post as a sentinel.

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society > armed hostility > defence > action or duty of sentry or picket > guard as sentry [verb (transitive)] > post as sentry or picket

picket1778

sentinel1827

1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. vii. 85 The light that fell From angel-chariots sentineled on high.

1832 H. W. Longfellow Native Land 7 There dwells the soul..sentinelled in heaven.

1870 W. Thornbury Tour Eng. II. xx. 68 A statue of the builder sentinelled high up in an airy niche.

Derivatives

ˈsentinelled adj.

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society > armed hostility > defence > action or duty of sentry or picket > [adjective] > provided with sentry

sentinelled1852

1852 H. Spencer Use & Beauty in Ess. (1891) II. 371 The mailed, moated, sentinelled security which was irksome to the nobles who needed it.

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单词	sentinel
释义	sentineln. /ˈsɛntɪnəl/ Forms: 1500s–1600s centinell, sentinell, 1500s centrinel, ( centronel, centernell, centonell, sentonell, sentnell), 1600s sentronell, sentenel, 1500s–1800s centinel, 1500s– sentinel. Etymology: < French sentinelle (feminine), sentinel, †watch-tower, < Italian sentinella feminine; Spanish centinela, Portuguese sentinella, are from Italian or French.No convincing etymology of the Italian word has been proposed. The gender renders it probable that it originally denoted either the function of keeping watch (= sense 2), or a sentry-box, watchtower, or the like. Compare spy, scout, guard, the French originals of which are all primarily feminine. 1. a. = sentry n.¹ 2. to stand sentinel (rarely passive to be set sentinel). †forlorn sentinel, = †sentinel perdu, perdu sentinel: see perdu adj. 1. [The phrases noted above are imitated from French.] ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > [noun] > victim-hero forlorn hopes1539 forlorn fellows1577 forlorn sentinel1579 salamander1705 victim-hero1962 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > [noun] > one who watches or keeps guard warda680 wakemanc1175 wardena1250 watchc1380 watchmana1400 outwatch1488 warderc1540 sentinel1579 perdu1639 sentry1650 lookout1662 security man1662 guardman1756 excubitor1775 cockatoo1827 guardsmana1854 dog1870 society > armed hostility > defence > action or duty of sentry or picket > [noun] > watch-post > advanced sentinel1579 perdu1611 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > guard > sentry waitc1325 watchc1380 sentinel1579 century1585 rounder1596 sentry1632 vedette1690 1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos iii. viii. 100 [The Scout Master] ought in placing of his night Watches or Sentinels, to vse great consideration. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ix. sig. I3 And he, that points the Centonell his roome, Doth license him depart at sound of morning droome. 1593 M. Sutcliffe Pract., Proc., & Lawes of Armes xxi. 228 No souldier appointed to stand sentinell, shall depart from the place, or sleepe in the place, vpon paine of death. 1598 B. Yong tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 120 The gate was opened to them out of hand by the Centrinels. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 106 Those which are set yet 30 pases farther, are to be single, which of some are improperly called forlorne Sentinels. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. i. 71 I was imploy'd..About relieuing of the Centinels. 1639 Laws & Ordin. War 6 Whoever being set Sentinell by his Officer.., or other Service, shall be found drunk; shall dye for it. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 176 They went all to sleep..without so much as a Centinel placed for their Guard. 1760 Cautions & Advices to Officers of Army 46 By making the Culprit do a double Duty, that is,..making him stand Centinel four Hours instead of two. 1777 J. Cook Jrnl. 6 Nov. (1967) III. i. 243 John Harrison, a Marine, who was Centinel at the Observatory deserted. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xxiii. 354 The..officer..having sent out his night patrols, and posted his sentinels . View more context for this quotation 1832 W. Irving Alhambra II. 179 ‘Who goes there?’ said the centinel at the gate. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 191 The sentinels who paced the ramparts announced that the vanguard of the hostile army was in sight. 1861 Two Cosmos II. iv. i. 6 Cosmo is a great favourite with his regiment... The sentinels always present their arms to him as he passes. 1881 Army Act §6 Every person subject to military law who..Forces or strikes a soldier when acting as sentinel; or..Being a soldier acting as sentinel,..sleeps or is drunk on his post..shall..be liable to [etc.]. b. transferred and figurative. One who or something which keeps guard like a military sentinel. ΚΠ 1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido ii. sig. C2^v And in this groue..Ile lay Ascanius..: These milke white Doues shall be his Centronels. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. ii. 32 2. Fai. Hence away: now all is well: One aloofe, stand Centinell. 1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 132 The mind having stood long centinell upon serious Thoughts, becomes..sluggish. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 3. ⁋4 A certain race of men..who stand as centinels in the avenues of fame. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lv. 492 Sir Pitt..had given orders not to be disturbed..—she slipped by the sentinel in livery. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 396 [Bad butter in pastry] thus escapes the very sense which was intended to act as a sentinel to the stomach. 1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert v. 39 The grim cliff on which the castle stands sentinel over the North Sea. †c. dark sentinel: one employed to keep secret watch upon a person. ? nonce-phr. ΚΠ 1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. D But..why she would..permit him to goe where and whither he listed, and onely under the Secrecy of a darke sentinell, set over him was..beyond my apprehension. †2. The occupation, duty or service of a sentinel; chiefly in to keep sentinel. in sentinel, on guard as a sentinel. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > action or duty of sentry or picket > [noun] sentinel1585 sentry1639 sentinelship1643 picket1713 picket duty1764 lookout duty1831 sentry-go1880 sentry-going1901 sentry duty1917 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > [noun] > as a watchman or sentinel wardOE day watchOE watch1377 watch and ward1390 wakingc1440 scout-watch1464 watching and warding1579 sentinel1585 day ward1597 romboyle1612 escouta1627 sentry1639 watchment1740 wardage1878 sentry-go1880 sentry-going1901 1585 A. Munday tr. L. Pasqualigo Fedele & Fortunio sig. D2 Being his turne as he said for to watch this night, And breaking vp sentinel when it began to be light. 1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 1 Keeping sentinell in the night. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 432 Those that kept the night sentinels. 1612 T. Beard Theatre Gods Judgem. (ed. 2) 287 The murderer being in sentinell, one of his owne fellowes vnawares shot him. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 23 In which Towers there are always some Aadgemoglans in Sentinel. 1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. 1 Thess. v. 8 The Soldiers that..kept centinel. figurative and in extended use.1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 65 Besides, counsels are not commonly so vnited, but that one keepeth Sentinell over an other.a1633 G. Herbert Priest to Temple (1652) xviii. 73 (heading) The Parson in Sentinell. †3. A military watchtower for defence of a camp or the walls of a city. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > castle or fortified building > [noun] > tower or watch-tower towerc897 bastillec1400 bastillion1525 cavalier1562 commander1572 torrion1572 mount1590 sentinel1600 sentry1611 cat1628 torne1637 rondel1686 rounder1774 Martello tower1803 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxv. 550 Many places were..smitten with lightning..and two watchmen in their Sentinels stricken starke dead. 1612–17 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. 200 King Edward who had gotten to a winde-mill hill, beholding as from a Sentinell,..the countenance of the enemy. 1643 Lancash. Valley of Achor 21 The Enemy..fired an house neer the Sentinell. 1643 Lancash. Valley of Achor 25 They fire Houses and Barnes without the sentinell... Thus they heated and smoaked our valiant souldiers from their Sentinell. †4. (private) centinel: a private soldier. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > common soldier > [noun] soldiera1300 sergeantc1300 private soldier1566 common soldier1569 private man1651 man1690 (private) centinel1710 single sentinel1721 private1775 single soldier1816 troop1832 ranksman1845 dog soldier1852 ranker1890 other rank1904 mucko1917 squaddie1933 craftsman1942 peon1957 grunt1969 troopie1972 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 5. ⁋8 There were in the ranks of the company..one Unnion a corporal, and one Valentine a private centinel. 1741 in Rep. Comm. Ho. Commons II. 172 (Land Forces, etc.) 70 Grenadiers Coats and Breeches, at 1l. 8s. 630 Centinels ditto, at 1l. 6s. 1744–5–6 in Rep. Comm. Ho. Commons II. 84, 87 Centinels [= ‘Private Men’]. 1762 O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash 80 He enlisted himself as a volunteer [in the Dutch army]. Here he underwent all the fatigues of a private centinel. 1797 Monthly Mag. 3 483 He..served as a private centinel under the duke of Marlborough, at..Blenheim. 1815 Articles of War xxi. 68 But Non-commissioned Officers may be discharged as Private Soldiers, and, by the order of the Colonel of the Regiment, or by the sentence of a Regimental Court-martial, be reduced to private Centinel. 1894 C. Walton Hist. Brit. Standing Army 1660 to 1700 xxiii. 417 All soldiers..below the grade of lance-corporal were denominated Privates or more correctly private centinels or private soldiers. 5. Nautical. (See quot. 1904) Cf. sentry n.¹ 5. ΚΠ 1904 W. Hall Mod. Navigation (1909) 73 The Sentinel is a device for signalling automatically that water of a certain depth has been reached. It is a lead towed behind the ship at a known depth, with gear fitted to it which completes an electric circuit on touching bottom. This circuit contains a bell on board the ship. Compounds C1. appositive, quasi-adj.= acting or serving as a sentinel. sentinel chain n. ΚΠ 1887 J. Ruskin Præterita II. xi. 396 The most noble view of Mont Blanc granted by any summit of his sentinel chains. sentinel crab n. a crab of the Indian Ocean, Podophthalmus vigil. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > miscellaneous types > order Podophthalmia > member of podophthalmian1836 sentinel crab1863 1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 586 The Sentinel-crab, so called from its extreme watchfulness [etc.]. sentinel pile n. Pathology an external hæmorrhoid situated at the lower end of an anal fissure. ΚΠ 1910 Practitioner Apr. 520 It is probable that the fissure results from the tearing down of one of the anal valves, the free border of which eventually appears at the anus as a rounded œdematous tag—the so-called sentinel pile. 1974 R. M. Kirk et al. Surgery vi. 132 The oedematous skin at the lower end of the fissure protrudes as a ‘sentinel’ pile. sentinel poplar n. ΚΠ 1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xxxiv. 466 The two sentinel poplars that guarded the front. sentinel star n. ΚΠ a1658 R. Lovelace To Lucasta in Lucasta: Postume Poems (1659) 11 Like to the Sent'nel Stars, I watch all Night. C2. Simple attributive. a. sentinel duty n. ΚΠ 1708 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) i. ii. xii. 107 They perform centinel duty on foot. † sentinel-house n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1621 J. Molle tr. P. Camerarius Liuing Libr. ii. viii. 100 The..rampier of the Picts..at euerie miles end had a..tower.., and watch-towers or sentinell~houses betweene. † sentinel posture n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1625 G. Markham Souldiers Accidence 24 Your Sentinell Posture. 1642 J. Cruso Order Milit. Watches 61 Every Sentinell must stand on his Sentinell posture. b. sentinel-like adj. ΚΠ 1896 ‘A. St. Aubyn’ Bishop's Delusion 54 The tall white lilies standing sentinel-like on either side the garden path. sentinel-wise adv. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021). sentinelv. /ˈsɛntɪnəl/ Etymology: < sentinel n. 1. transitive. To stand guard over, to watch as a sentinel. literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > action or duty of sentry or picket > guard as sentry [verb (transitive)] sentinel1594 sentry1820 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > watch or keep guard over [verb (transitive)] > as a sentry sentinel1594 sentry1820 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. G3^v To wake the morne, and Centinell the night. View more context for this quotation 1598 S. Rowlands Betraying of Christ 28 The watchfull bird that centinels the morne. 1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy ii. 27 All the powers That centinell iust Thrones, double these guards About your sacred Excellence. 1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 1st Pt. i. 9 Wee'll centinel their safety. This place Ile guard. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 18 And mountains, that like giants stand, To centinel enchanted land. 1868 B. J. Lossing Hudson (new ed.) 48 The winding road was..sentineled by lofty pines. 1894 W. C. Russell Good Ship ‘Mohock’ I. 138 The fellow on deck sentinelling the hatch let us see he was on guard. †2. intransitive. To act as sentinel, stand sentinel, keep guard. literal and figurative. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > action or duty of sentry or picket > act as sentry or picket [verb (intransitive)] sentinel1593 to stand sentry1728 picket1775 sentry1910 to walk guard1930 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > watch or keep guard [verb (intransitive)] to stand upon one's watch1535 sentinel1593 to lie (also stand, stay, etc.) perdu1607 to mount (the) guard1669 to keep guard1712 sentry1910 to watch a person's back1974 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 17 My vigilance shoulde haue sentineld for all your sleepes. 1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 7 And all the watchmen, that so nimbly runne, And centinel about the walled towers. 3. transitive. To furnish with or as with a sentinel or with sentinels. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > action or duty of sentry or picket > guard as sentry [verb (transitive)] > provide with guards or sentry warnish1532 sentinel1656 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > watch or keep guard over [verb (transitive)] > furnish with a guard or warder sentinel1656 warder1849 1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 33 The Lord Fairfax..wisely Sentinel'd and Perdu'd it to prevent Surprisals. 1820 W. Scott Monastery III. iii. 73 They have centinelled your door with armed men. 1864 Daily Tel. 1 Aug. A wide course had been prepared duly roped off and sentinelled with police. 1901 Daily Chron. 4 Oct. 7/1 Three passes led into our valley, and I gathered they were all well sentinelled. 4. To post as a sentinel. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > action or duty of sentry or picket > guard as sentry [verb (transitive)] > post as sentry or picket picket1778 sentinel1827 1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. vii. 85 The light that fell From angel-chariots sentineled on high. 1832 H. W. Longfellow Native Land 7 There dwells the soul..sentinelled in heaven. 1870 W. Thornbury Tour Eng. II. xx. 68 A statue of the builder sentinelled high up in an airy niche. Derivatives ˈsentinelled adj. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > action or duty of sentry or picket > [adjective] > provided with sentry sentinelled1852 1852 H. Spencer Use & Beauty in Ess. (1891) II. 371 The mailed, moated, sentinelled security which was irksome to the nobles who needed it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1579v.1593
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