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SENTINEL, or SENTRY , a guard or watch
case
etymology has been the subject of much controversy. The original
modern
French military term
bilge -water in a ship, figuratively rabble, camp-followers. If an Italian origin, as agreed on by most authorities, be set aside, the French word suggests a more appropriate formation as the diminutive of sentier, path, Lat. semita, meaning properly the sentry's beat. The O. Fr. senteret (a form of sentier) would account for the English
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