单词 | picket guard |
释义 | > as lemmaspicket guard picket guard n. Military an inlying picket; a picket protecting a position; a member of such a picket; (also) picket duty. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > for guard duty > picket safeguard1660 picket1702 picket guard1703 1703 London Gaz. No. 3923/2 Our Piquet Guard was..ordered out to attack them. 1750 H. Snell Female Soldier 56 She was put on the Picquet Guard. 1862 W. T. Truxtun Let. 13 June in I. Berlin et al. Free at Last (1992) 53 Throwing out a picket guard,..I satisfied myself that the enemy were not in our immediate neighborhood. 1883 Reno (Nevada) Weekly Gaz. 23 Aug. 8/1 The Apaches made an attack on the village of Nacori..and killed five picket guards. 1916 Coshocton (Ohio) Morning Tribune 13 Feb. 7/5 A picket guard of Bulgarians stationed to prevent any communication between the French and English and the Serbians. 2002 Daily Mail (Nexis) 3 May 50 As what was left of the French army struggled on to Vilnius from the Beresina, troops froze to death as they stood picket guard. < as lemmas |
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