middle guard
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of middle guard
1870–75, for an earlier sense
Example Sentences
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Playing middle guard the for the Blackshirts, Glover also won the Outland and Lombardi awards as the best lineman in the country.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2011
Neale dropped his middle guard off the line and changed his Eagle into a variation of the 4-3.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2010
Superb blocker with good speed, built in classic mold of pro-type middle guard; sure to be eagerly sought despite occasionally troublesome shoulder injury.
From Time Magazine Archive
Glover, a two-time All-America, has been unstoppable as a middle guard for the Cornhuskers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Immediately he ordered Marshal Ney, to take with him four battalions of the middle guard, and hasten with all speed to the fatal height, to support the cuirassiers by whom it was still occupied.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon
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