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home guard ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a volunteer force used for meeting local emergencies when the regular armed forces are needed elsewhere.
Origin of home guard First recorded in 1735–45 Examples from the Web for home guard Historical Examples of home guard
Being large and able-bodied, I enrolled with the home-guard.
Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive
Alf Burnett
This home-guard was placed under command of the king in person.
R.M. Ballantyne
But we were the home-guard, and our own lives were nothing to us, if only we could save the defenceless.
Margaret Hill McCarter
We looked to see the militia fire and run, home-guard fashion; but these men of Pickens’s were made of more soldierly stuff.
Francis Lynde
Go thou and Hake back to the huts as fast as may be, and order the home-guard to make all needful preparation.
R.M. Ballantyne
British Dictionary definitions for home guard Home Guard noun
- a volunteer part-time military force recruited for the defence of the United Kingdom in World War II
- (in various countries) a civil defence and reserve militia organization