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corporal's guard en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A small detachment of guards under the charge of a corporal.
  2. (broadly) 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. 1863, Theodore Winthrop, edited by G. W. Curtis, Life in the Open Air, and Other Papers, Washington as a Camp: