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foreguard

foreguard verb: to guard beforehand.

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.
    • 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.1981, David H. Caldwell, Scottish weapons and fortifications
    • "[...] Rear guard to river-side, river to foreguard, foreguard to land-side, land-side to rear."2011, Elizabeth Moon, Kings of the North

Forms of foreguard

Verb
third-person singular presentforeguards
present participleforeguarding
past participleforeguarded
pastforeguarded
Noun
pluralforeguards

Origin of foreguard

From fore- + guard.

Questions about foreguard

What does foreguard mean?
Foreguard means to guard beforehand.
What part of speech is foreguard?
Foreguard can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of foreguard?
The past tense of foreguard is foreguarded.

Words near foreguard in the dictionary

  1. foregrounders
  2. foregrounding
  3. foregrounds
  4. foregroup
  5. foregroups
  6. foreguard
  7. foreguards
  8. foreguess
  9. foreguessed
  10. foreguesses
  11. foreguessing

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