outguard

English

Etymology

out +‎ guard

Noun

outguard (plural outguards)

  1. (military) A guard or small body of troops at a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy.
  2. (by extension) Anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defended.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “outguard”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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