What does centinel mean?

centinel

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.45 in modern English

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noun

Obsolete

"Enter Barnardo, and Franciſco, two Centinels."
"When the centinel first saw our heroe approach, his hair began gently to lift up his grenadier cap; and in the same instant his knees fell to blows with each other."
"To counterbalance those foreign centinels, there mounted guard on the other side of the mirror two stout warders of Scottish lineage; […]"

centinels (plural)

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