Definition of Sentry go

1. Noun. The duty of serving as a sentry. "He was on guard that night"

Exact synonyms: Guard, Guard Duty, Sentry Duty
Generic synonyms: Assignment, Duty Assignment
Derivative terms: Guard

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sentry Go

sentinel tag
sentineled
sentineling
sentinelled
sentinelling
sentinels
senting
sentisection
senton
sentries
sentry
sentry-box
sentry-boxes
sentry box
sentry duty
sentry go (current term)
sents
senvies
senvy
senza
senza sordini
senza sordino
sepad
sepadded
sepadding
sepads
sepak takraw
sepal
sepaled
sepaline

Literary usage of Sentry go

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
""sentry go!"* MANY years ago I was serving as a captain in the noth Regiment. At the period of my story we were quartered at D , a fortress of considerable ..."

2. A College Man in Khaki: Letters of an American in the British Artillery by Wainwright Merrill (1918)
"I was doing sentry go: it was ten o'clock and after. I had been challenging the privates who were entering, when suddenly there appeared, approaching me ..."

3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"Day on, day off, on sentry go ... stops my breath, And orders me off duty— To where all show, both high and low, And where there 's no more sentry go ! ..."

4. Between the Lights: And Other Verses by Will Lawson (1906)
"They gave her every scrap of draught, For it meant life if she Could pass those cruisers, drowsing so, Upon their sleepy sentry-go. ..."

5. A French-English Military Technical Dictionary by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1899)
"standing sentry, sentry duty, sentry go; ... to post a sentry: sentry go; monter la , to go on sentry or post, to prendre la , to go on post; walk post, ..."

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