guard post

See also: guardpost

English

Etymology

From guard +‎ post.

Noun

guard post (plural guard posts)

1. 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.

Translations

Translations

• Bulgarian: пост (bg) m (post)
• Danish: vagtpost c
• Finnish: vartio (fi)
• German: Warte (de) f
• Hungarian: őrhely (hu)