Associations to the word «Outguard»

Wiktionary

OUTGUARD, noun. (military) A guard or small body of troops at a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy.
OUTGUARD, noun. (by extension) Anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defended.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne