guard post

See also: guardpost

English edit

guard +‎ post

guard post (plural guard posts)

A location where a guard is posted (station), often having a guardhouse.
Coordinate term: sentry-box
- 1986, Chiharu Kōno, “Women in Flight”, in Richard L. Gage, transl., Women Against War: Personal Accounts of Forty Japanese Women‎^[1], Kodansha International, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 26:
  In 1938 my husband and I were sent by the old regimental district branch to a guard post called Boli on the border between Manchuria and the Soviet Union.

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