sentry box

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   a small shelter with an open front to protect a sentry from the weather

   Broadershelter

Questions about sentry box

What does sentry box mean?

sentry box means "a small shelter with an open front to protect a sentry from the weather".

Is sentry box a common word?

sentry box is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.