foreguard

English edit

Etymology edit

From fore- +‎ guard.

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."