† gardecautn.
Obsolete.
(See quot.)
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Gardecaut, or Gard-du-cord, is that which stops the Fusee of a Watch when wound up.
1721 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
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