sentry-goint.n.
A. int.
(See quot. 1867.)
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military organization > orders > order [interjection] > order to sentry
sentry-go1852
1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) ii. 232 Sentry go! en faction!
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Sentry go!, the order to the new sentry to proceed to the relief of the previous one.
B. n.
The patrol of a sentry; also, the duties of a sentry. Also transferred.
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
1880 Daily Tel. 23 Sept. The gallant fellows who were taking their turn at sentry-go on the other side of the Indus.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iv. xx. 161 We'll have to do sentry-go.
1884 Roberts in 19th Cent. June 1059 Constant guard mounting, with its accompaniment of impaired health from ‘sentry go’.
1922 Blackwood's Mag. May 557/2 One of their number doing sentry-go gives the native equivalent for the schoolboy's ‘Cave’ on the reappearance of their employer.
1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock i. i. 4 This was Hale's job to do sentry go, until a challenger released him, in every seaside town in turn.
Derivatives
sentry-going n. doing sentry-go.
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
1901 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 280/2 After his long term of hard labour at patrolling and sentry-going, as guardian of the line.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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