| 单词 | to keep sentry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep sentry 3. The occupation, duty, or service of a sentry; also the watch kept by a sentry, esp. in to keep sentry. 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 1639 Laws & Ordin. War 9 Whosoever shall be convicted to have slept upon his Watch, Guard, or Centry..shall be put to death. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §12. 174 Thou whose nature cannot sleepe, On my temples centry keepe. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 412 What evasion [can] bear him safe Through the strict Senteries and Stations thick Of Angels watching round? View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 373 Here Toils, and Death, and Death's half-brother, Sleep, Forms terrible to view, their Centry keep. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 89 Your Soldiers..cannot be able to keep sufficient centry about it. 1835 in Rep. Comm. Milit. Punishm. (1836) 192 [Scale of Punishment] Dilatory on sentry (if slight) 1 extra sentry or drill. 1887 H. R. Haggard Jess xxxi. 301 Some are on sentry. < as lemmas |
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