Usually means: Observing surroundings from a high point.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. sentinelling: Merriam-Webster
  2. sentinelling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sentinelling: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sentinelling: Wiktionary
  5. sentinelling: Dictionary.com
  6. Sentinelling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. Sentinelling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. sentinelling: FreeDictionary.org
  9. sentinelling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sentinelling: Encyclopedia

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  1. sentinelling: Medical dictionary

(Note: See sentinel as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Sentinel)

noun:  A sentry, watch, or guard.
noun:  (obsolete) A private soldier.
noun:  (computer science) A unique value recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way, or marking the end of a set of data.
noun:  A sentinel crab.
noun:  (attributive, medicine, epidemiology) A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).
noun:  (figuratively) Someone who is hardworking and dutiful.
verb:  (transitive) To watch over as a guard.
verb:  (transitive) To post a guard for.
noun:  A place in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Maricopa County, Arizona.
noun:  A ghost town in Fresno County, California.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri
noun:  A town in Washita County, Oklahoma.
▸ Also see sentinel


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