Verb
To guard beforehand.
Usage- Transitive
To guard in front.
Usage- Transitive
Noun
A forward guard, or guard placed out front.
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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.
"[...] Rear guard to river-side, river to foreguard, foreguard to land-side, land-side to rear."