| 单词 | outpost guard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoutpost guard C1. General attributive, as outpost duty, outpost guard, outpost station, etc. ΚΠ 1776 Battle of Brooklyn ii. i. 19 We are the remains of the out post guard. 1854 F. I. Duberly Jrnl. 16 Sept. in Mrs Duberly's War (2007) 64 Started immediately on outpost-duty. 1870 De B. R. Keim Sheridan's Troopers 206 This simple means is also resorted to by the troops on outpost duty. 1903 Amer. Hist. Rev. 9 175 Like most cavalry officers, he saw more of hardy but innocuous outpost duty and less of hard fighting than he would have seen on foot. 1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. 226 The blockhouse..was absorbed into our outpost-line. 1946 R.A.F. Jrnl. May 175 In Berlin and Hamburg..and on airfields and outpost stations, the R.A.F. has taken root. 1981 A. Sillitoe Second Chance 160 The line of dwellings called Harrison's Row made a sort of outpost bastion before the country began. < as lemmas |
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