sentry-box
Noun

sentry-box

  1. A booth erected to provide rudimentary shelter to a sentry on his post.
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    • 1765, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XIX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume VIII, London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], OCLC 959921514 ↗, 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; {{...}
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