Definitions

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  • verb transitive To guard beforehand.
  • verb transitive To guard in front.
  • noun A forward guard, or guard placed out front.

Etymologies

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From fore- +‎ guard.

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Examples

  • The two lords ride until they reach the van, and the rolling downhill stretch below the mounted foreguard.

    Fall of Angels Modesitt, L. E. 1996

  • Enaila and the rest of the foreguard were already outside, veils down, with a dozen or so Aielmen.

    Lord of Chaos Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1994

  • No foreguard out, and no scouts, or he'd know what was bloody in store for him.

    The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993

  • He made a horn of his two hands and shouted to the foreguard at the foot of the bluff:

    Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret Annie Roe Carr

  • Camp side of the stream, watching the leading logs of the drive, and directing the foreguard.

    Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret Annie Roe Carr

  • For a mile he had walked quietly, and then a turn in the road showed him a little glen or hollow, watered by such a tiny rushing brooklet as his own woods knew, and beyond, alas, the glaring foreguard of a "new neighborhood"; raw red villas, semi-detached, and then a row of lamentable shops.

    The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen 1905

  • For foreguard I shall give you your own forty men, with two-score archers.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • For foreguard I shall give you your own forty men, with two-score archers.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • When the foreguard of the Moors was near the entrance to the cave, the king and his men, mounted, led the attack in front, and all along the line the carnage began.

    Women of the Romance Countries John Robert Effinger 1901

  • For foreguard I shall give you your own forty men, with two-score archers.

    The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

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