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corporal's guard

noun

Definitions

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

  2. A 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.

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