sentinel. A person or special body of persons assigned to provide protection or keep watch over, for example: guard, lookout, picket, protector, sentry, ward, watch.
Victrola. Originally, a phonograph from the Victor Talking Machine Company, Camden, NJ, but it eventually became more of a generic term for any brand of phonograph.
The Latin word vicus was also applied to the smallest administrative unit of a provincial town within the Roman Empire, and to an ad hoc provincial civilian settlement that sprang up close to and because of a nearby official Roman site, usually a military garrison or state-owned mining operation.