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main-guard
1. Fortif. The keep of a castle; also, the building within a fortress in which the ‘main-guard’ (sense 2 b) is lodged. Also fig.
1653E. Waterhouse Apol. Learn. Pref., Nothing..is so great a security to the main-guard of Religion, as well to provide for her out-ports & lines of learning. 1662Pepys Diary 19 Dec., With the Lieutenant's leave set them to work in the garden, in the corner against the mayneguard. 1690Lond. Gaz. No. 2544/2 They passed the Ditch, and made themselves Masters of the Main-guard. 1778Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Marlborough, The keep or main guard of the castle. 1902Daily Chron. 3 Mar. 3/1 The hideous new main-guard which has been built close to the White Tower.
2. Mil.
a. = grand guard 2.
b. (See quot. 1876.)
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey) s.v. Guard, Main Guard, (in the Field) is a considerable Body of Horse sent out to the Head of the Camp to secure the Army, by diligently guarding all the Avenues or Passages that lead to it. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) VIII. 170/2 Main Guard, is that from which all other guards are detached. 1876Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. (ed. 3) s.v., Large forts or fortresses have a main guard chosen from the troops garrisoning them, under which guard all disturbers of the peace, drunkards, &c., are placed. |