foreguard

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ guard.

Verb

foreguard (third-person singular simple present foreguards, present participle foreguarding, simple past and past participle foreguarded)

  1. (transitive) To guard beforehand.
  2. (transitive) To guard in front.

Noun

foreguard (plural foreguards)

  1. 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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