COUNTERGUARD, noun [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.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.