“quarter、guard”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

quarter-guard

释义

quarter-guard Mil.
[quarter n. 14 c.]
A small guard mounted in front of each battalion in a camp, at about eighty paces distant.
1741S. Speed in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 399 Col. Cockran's and Brigadier Lowther's Regiments..were not able to give more than nine men for their quarter-guard.1758Watson Milit. Dict. (ed. 5) s.v. Guard, Quarter Guards are more for preserving the Peace and Tranquillity within the Regiment..than for a Security against the Enemy.1844Regul. & Ord. Army 32 On these occasions, the Tents of the Quarter Guards are to be struck.1892R. Kipling Ball., East & West 89 When they drew to the Quarter-Guard, full twenty swords flew clear.

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