The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sentires
Sentry \Sen"try\, n.; pl. Sentires. [Probably from OF. senteret a little patch; cf. F. sentier path, and OF. sente. See Sentinel.]
(Mil.) A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.
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Guard; watch, as by a sentinel.
Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother, sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep.
--Dryden.Sentry box, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his post, and shelter him from the weather.
Usage examples of "sentires".
She felt the skimmer surge forward under maximum power, blazing through the security gate, and the alert sentires saw nothing at all.