Brewer's: Sentinel

Archd. Smith says, “It is one set to watch the sentina (Lat.) or hold of a ship,” but the Fr. sentier, a path or “beat,” is far more probable. (French, sentinelle; Italian, sentinella; the French sentier is from the Latin semita

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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