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ˈhome-guard, Home Guard
[home n.1 15 a.]
a. A member of a local volunteer force. U.S.
b. Hist. In England, the Territorial Forces.
1861Richmond (Va.) Examiner 6 Sept. 2/4 The Secessionists..attacked the..Home Guards. 1862O. W. Norton Army Lett. (1903) 123 Nothing would make me ready to fight sooner than to hear some home guard abuse McClellan. 1873‘Mark Twain’ & Warner Gilded Age xviii. 170 He was captain of the home-guards in Hawkeye. 1891Century Mag. Jan. 409 An unexpected musketry fire was opened from the Indiana side by a party of home-guards. 1896Congress. Rec. 25 Apr., App. 298 Before Gen. Burnside came, the mountain men of East Tennessee organized themselves into companies called ‘Home Guards’. 1909Westm. Gaz. 7 Jan. 7/3 A movement has been set on foot which has for its object the presentation of colours to the ‘Home Guard’, as we call the Territorials. 1919F. Hurst Humoresque 245, I know half a dozen who have got in the home guard..and have saved themselves by volunteering from being sent to France. 1969E. W. Morse Fur Trade Canoe Routes i. ii. 15 With the Hudson's Bay Company it was the ‘Home Guard’ Indians, the Swampy Crees, who served as middlemen.
c. One who lives or works continuously in the same place; spec. (a) a resident logger; (b) a non-migrant beggar, hobo, or thief. Also collect. N. Amer. colloq.
1919Camp Worker (Vancouver) 19 Sept. 8/3 Camp poorly organized; too many home guards. 1923N. Anderson Hobo i. 7 The vagabond who has settled and retired, the ‘home guard’ as they are rather contemptuously referred to by the tribe of younger and more adventurous men who still choose to take the road. Ibid. vii. 96 The home guard, like the hobo, is a casual laborer, but he works, often only by the day, now at one and again at another of the multitude of unskilled jobs in the city. 1926J. Black You can't Win xvi. 219 The gangs [of thieves] are made up of natives and ‘home guards’. 1931‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route iii. 37 At the other extreme from the ramblers we find a large variety of home guards who keep pretty much to one locality. 1942R. E. Swanson Rhymes of Western Logger 35 You talk of your drums! you home-guard bums should have seen the size of her ‘main’! 1955Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxiv. 98 They will say about home guards, they'll say, ‘Pay no attention to him..he's just a local character.’
d. In form Home Guard. The military force organized in 1940 for the defence of Great Britain and Northern Ireland against possible invasion, orig. called Local Defence Volunteers. Also a member of this force. (Disbanded 31 July 1957.) Similarly in other countries.
1940W. S. Churchill Into Battle (1941) 251 Behind the regular Army we have more than a million of the Local Defence Volunteers, or, as they are much better called, the ‘Home Guard’. 1942Ann. Reg. 1941 45 On May 14 the Home Guard celebrated its first anniversary. 1943N. & Q. 10 Apr. 220/1 A company of a Home Guard battalion. 1945Daily Mirror 15 Aug. 3/1 When an eighteen-year-old Home Guard decided to impersonate his brother and take his place in the Army he ran into trouble right away. 1970Daily Tel. 21 Mar. 4/7 Lebanon is to establish a ‘home guard’ to police the border areas with Israel, where tension between Palestinian guerrillas and the Lebanese Army has been high. 1970New Yorker 19 Sept. 34/1 At the entrance to the hospital [in Israel], a Home Guard..sucked furiously on his unlit pipe. |