Definition of guard

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Guard (v. t.) A fence or rail to prevent falling from the deck of a vessel.

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Hedge :: Hedge (v. t.) To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).
Guard :: Guard (v. t.) Watch; heed; care; attention; as, to keep guard..
Advance :: Advance (a.) Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication..
Watershoot :: Watershoot (n.) That which serves to guard from falling water; a drip or dripstone.
Chape :: Chape (n.) The transverse guard of a sword or dagger.
Defensor :: Defensor (n.) A defender or an advocate in court; a guardian or protector.
Yeoman :: Yeoman (n.) A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry..
Blackguardly :: Blackguardly (adv. & a.) In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.
Fortress :: Fortress (v. t.) To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.
Avant-guard :: Avant-guard (n.) The van or advanced body of an army. See Vanguard.
Hesperides :: Hesperides (n. pl.) The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides..
Rearward :: Rearward (n.) The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard. Also used figuratively.
Sponson :: Sponson (n.) One of the slanting supports under the guards of a steamboat.
Vigilance :: Vigilance (n.) Guard; watch.
Axle Guard :: Axle guard () The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England..
Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard..
Conduct :: Conduct (n.) Convoy; escort; guard; guide.
Underfong :: Underfong (v. t.) To sustain; to support; to guard.
Edituate :: Edituate (v. t.) To guard as a churchwarden does.
Tutor :: Tutor (n.) One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing..
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