What does "sentinel" mean?
Sentinel: Watch; guard. [Obs.] "That princes do keep due sentinel." Bacon.
Additional senses
- 2.(Zoöl.) A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab.
- 3.To watch over like a sentinel. "To sentinel enchanted land." [R.] Sir W. Scott.
- 4.To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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