Definition of "sentineling" [sentineling]

• Present participle of sentinel. (verb)

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• "There was not enough originality among the worked-to-death inhabitants of Cottontown to plant their gardens differently; for all of them had the same weedy turnip-patch on one side, straggling tomatoes on another, and half-dried mullein-stalks sentineling the corners."
• "What a glory it was -- the green seas of spruce and cedar and balsam, the ridges of poplar and birch rising like silvery spume above the darker billows, and afar off, mellowed in the sun-mists, the guardian crests of Trout Mountains sentineling the country beyond!"
• "Smoke - blackened and seasoned by wind and rain they were dark blotches sentineling the shore of the big lake."