corporal's guard

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English

Noun

corporal's guard

  1. A detachment such as would be in charge of a corporal for guard duty, etc.; hence, derisively, a very small number of people.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for corporal's guard”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)