"centinel" meaning in English

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          "text": "Enter Barnardo, and Franciſco, two Centinels.",
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          "ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "To counterbalance those foreign centinels, there mounted guard on the other side of the mirror two stout warders of Scottish lineage; […]",
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