Posted by John on April 07, 2006 at 14:00:59 from 165.91.48.7 user Mcneacail.
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[f. SENTRY n.1]
a. trans. To guard as a sentry. b. intr. To perform the office of a sentry.
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1820 J. S. KNOWLES Virginius V. II. 78 Though a legion Sentried that brothel, which he calls his palace, I'd tear her from him! 1873 W. S. MAYO Never Again xii, To where a postern, deep in shade, Is sentried only by the maid. 1900 Daily News 27 Sept. 5/1 Most of the prisoners are..surrounded by a thick barbed wire fence, and sentried by the Gloucesters. 1910 T. HARDY in Eng. Rev. Apr. 1 The unslumbering sea, That sentrys up and down all night, all day, From cove to promontory.
c. intr. and refl. To place as a sentry; also fig.
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1922 JOYCE Ulysses 221 Corny Kelleher..glanced..at a pine coffinlid sentried in a corner. 1979 G. SWARTHOUT Skeletons 155 John and Paul had sentried themselves before the bank door, barring my re-entry.
There is no sentry go entry - merely htis one.
So I wonder how you would say sentry go in the past tense?