corporal's guard

noun

A small detachment of guards under the charge of a corporal.

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Meanings

noun
  1. governmentA small detachment of guards under the charge of a corporal.
  2. broadlyA very small number of people.

    Our thousand did the Capitol little harm that a corporal’s guard of Biddies with mops and tubs could not repair in a forenoon’s campaign.

    1863, Theodore Winthrop, edited by G. W. Curtis, Life in the Open Air, and Other Papers, Washington as a Camp
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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