guard post

See also: guardpost

English

Etymology

guard +‎ post

Noun

guard post (plural guard posts)

  1. A location where a guard is posted (station), often having a guardhouse.
    Coordinate term: sentry-box
    • 1986, Kōno, Chiharu, “Women in Flight”, in Richard L. Gage, transl., Women Against War: Personal Accounts of Forty Japanese Women‎, Kodansha International, →ISBN, LCCN 86-45068, OCLC 760653316, page 26:
      In 1938 my husband and I were sent by the old regimental district branch to a guard post called Boli on the border between Manchuria and the Soviet Union.
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