▪ I. † gard1 Obs.
[ad. F. garde (in prendre garde à): see guard n.]
Attention, watchfulness. Also, the object of one's attention.
| a 1569 A. Kingsmill Man's Est. x. (1580) 62 This was his gard, he was still busie aboute these, the blinde, the leaper, the lame, the deafe, and the dedde. 1600 Holland Livy xxiii. ix. (1609) 478 All their gard and regard, all their eyes upon him alone, what serve they for? |
▪ II. † gard2 Obs.
Also garde.
[ad. F. garde (Cotgr.).]
The dew-claw of a deer or boar.
| 1576 Turberv. Venerie 154 The gardes (which are his hinder clawes or dew clawes) should be great and open one from another. 1616 Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 691 The..wrinkles which are betwixt his gards and the heele. |
▪ III. gard3 dial. (Cornwall).
(gɑːd) (See quots.)
| 1602 Carew Cornwall 30 b, A thick strong net..drawne at the boates sterne, gathering whatsoever it meeteth lying in the bottome of the water, out of which when it is taken vp they cull the oysters and cast away the residue, which they terme gard. 1865 R. Hunt Pop. Rom. W. Eng. Ser. i. 124 Clean all the platters..with water and gard (gravel sand). |
▪ IV. gard, gard-
see guard, guard-.