sentry-box

English

A guard in his sentry-box.

Alternative forms

• sentry box

Noun

sentry-box (plural sentry-boxes)

1. A booth erected to provide rudimentary shelter to a sentry on his/her post.

   Coordinate term: guard post

   • 1765, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XIX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume VIII, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 75:

     As for chronology, I own, Trim, continued my uncle Toby, sitting down again coolly in his sentry-box, that, of all others, it seems a science which the soldiers might best spare, was it not for the lights which that science must one day give him, in determining the invention of powder; […]

Translations

booth for a sentry

• Bulgarian: караулка f (karaulka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 崗亭／岗亭 (zh) (gǎngtíng), 哨所 (zh) (shàosuǒ)

• Danish: skilderhus n
• Dutch: wachthuisje (nl) n
• Finnish: vartiokoppi
• French: guérite (fr) f
• German: Schilderhaus (de) n, Wachhäuschen (de) n
• Hungarian: őrbódé (hu)
• Italian: garitta (it) f
• Japanese: 哨舎 (しょうしゃ, shōsha), 番屋 (ばんや, ban'ya)
• Norwegian: skilderhus
• Portuguese: guarita (pt) f
• Russian: караульное помещение (karaulʹnoje pomeščenije), сторожевая будка (storoževaja budka)
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: stražowa chěžka f

• Spanish: garita (es)
• Swedish: vaktkur c, skyllerkur c
• Walloon: guerite (wa) f

Further reading

• sentry box on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Sentry boxes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons