corporal's guardとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

corporal's guard

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

     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.

参照

• “corporal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.