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Sentineling

Sentinel \Sen"ti*nel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sentineledor Sentinelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Sentineling or Sentinelling.]

  1. To watch over like a sentinel. ``To sentinel enchanted land.'' [R.]
    --Sir W. Scott.

  2. To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.

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sentineling

vb. (present participle of sentinel English)

Usage examples of "sentineling".

At Lynchburg we saw the famed Peaks of Otter--twenty miles away--lifting their proud heads far into the clouds, like giant watch-towers sentineling the gateway that the mighty waters of the James had forced through the barriers of solid adamant lying across their path to the far-off sea.