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Home guard   /hoʊm gɑrd/   Listen
Home guard

noun
1.
A volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere.





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"Home guard" Quotes from Famous Books



... by seizing all the horses within reach,[7] leaving none for the militia or for General E.H. Hobson, which enabled him to gain on his pursuers, and he would then have left Hobson far out of sight but for the home guard, who obstructed the roads somewhat, and bushwhacked his men from every hedge, hill, or tree, when it could be done. But the trouble was that we could not attack him ...
— Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War • Various


Words linked to "Home guard" :   military machine, war machine, yeomanry, military, armed forces, guard, armed services


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