Associations to the word «Outguard»

Wiktionary

OUTGUARD, noun. (military) A guard or small body of troops at a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy.
OUTGUARD, noun. (by extension) Anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defended.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats