Usually means: Guards stationed to watch over.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. sentries: Merriam-Webster
  2. sentries: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sentries: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sentries: Vocabulary.com
  5. Sentries, sentries: Wordnik
  6. sentries: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. sentries: Wiktionary
  8. sentries: Dictionary.com
  9. sentries: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. sentries: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sentries: Legal dictionary

(Note: See sentry as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sentry)

noun:  A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.
noun:  (uncountable) Sentry duty; time spent being a sentry.
noun:  (nautical) A form of drag to be towed underwater, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface.
noun:  A watchtower.
noun:  An animal like a marmot tasked with alerting the pack to danger.
▸ Also see sentry

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