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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Sentinel of the Blessed Sacrament
• Indian Sentinel, the
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• Sentinelling
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Sentinel

(1):

(n.) One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry.

(2):

(n.) Watch; guard.

(3):

(n.) A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; - called also sentinel crab.

(4):

(v. t.) To watch over like a sentinel.

(5):

(v. t.) To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.