Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for COUN'TER-GUARD
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COUN'TER-GUARD, n. [counter and guard.]
In fortification, a small rampart or work raised before the point of a bastion, consisting of two long faces parallel to the faces of the bastion, making a salient angle, to preserve the bastion. It is sometimes of a different shape, or differently situated. – Encyc.
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