foreguard
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English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Verb
[edit ]foreguard (third-person singular simple present foreguards , present participle foreguarding , simple past and past participle foreguarded )
- (transitive ) To guard beforehand.
- (transitive ) To guard in front.
Noun
[edit ]foreguard (plural foreguards )
- A forward guard, or guard placed out front.
- 1981, David H. Caldwell, Scottish weapons and fortifications:
- The surviving quillon is recurved horizontally and terminates in a small knob, but has adjacent to it a loop-shaped foreguard almost exactly like that on the Montagu sword.
- 2011, Elizabeth Moon, Kings of the North:
- "[...] Rear guard to river-side, river to foreguard, foreguard to land-side, land-side to rear."
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