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corporal's guard definition

☆ corporal's guard

  1. a squad commanded by a corporal
  2. any small group of people, sometimes a bare minimum for a given purpose

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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