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Answer for the clue "Wheel guard ", 6 letters:
fender

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Word definitions for fender in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fender may refer to: Fender (vehicle) or wing, a part of a motor vehicle that frames a wheel well Fender (boating) , a bumper used to keep boats from banging into docks or each other Fender (surname) , a surname Fender, Arkansas , a community in the United ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., shortening of defender . Originally something hung over the side to protect the hull of a ship at a wharf, pier, etc. Of fireplaces since 1680s; of automobiles from 1919. Fender-bender "minor automobile accident" is from 1958.

Usage examples of fender.

It had the usual side- board, dining-table, looking-glass, scroll fender, marble chimney-piece with a clock on it, carpet with a drugget over it, and wire window-blinds to keep people from looking in, characteristic of all respectable London parlors of the middle class.

Around the sides was a stout rail and at the front end there was an outrigger fender, constructed of keem branches bound together into a huge, fat roll that was then propped up on menelo beams fastened to the raft.

Country Squire wagon soft on its shocks, with one dented fender hammered out semi-smooth but the ruddy rustproofing underpaint left to do for a finish.

The boy is sitting with his feet on the fender and roasting chestnuts on a toasting-fork held at the fire while Mr Vulliamy is slumbering at his desk with his head resting upon his papers.

He let the wheel roll too close to the curb and the unicycle pitched him hard into the fender of a parked car.

Marie on the rear fender, as she mowed the area under and around our unwalled roof, cutting the grass back in a hundred-foot radius.

She had seated herself on the fender of an autonomic tractor and was examining packages of seeds.

She shifts stiffly upright in her seat and leans forward to see what Britt is pointing to in the deep darkness beyond the left-front fender of their now unmoving machine.

Both brothers were on the tractor, Raymond standing up behind Harold, who sat behind the wheel driving an ancient red sun-faded Farmall with the canvas wings of the heat houser bolted over the block onto the fenders for protection from the wind, pulling an empty flatbed hay wagon.

A sturdily built man much of an age with Planir and Herion knelt by the fireplace stacking badly charred tomes inside the fender.

At the top he saw that Ratty had tied it to the front fender of that jeep, then started the engine-thank God it would start, he breathed-and backed it away to pull them up.

While Makerakera the expert on aggression sweated frantically to weld together a scratch team of whoever could be spared to join him - Choong from Hong Kong, Jenny Fender from Indiana, Stanislaus Danquah from Accra, and some trainees - the little Greek Pericles Phranakis turned his back on the catastrophe and went away down a path of his own, to a land where success had crowned his efforts with a wreath of bay.

She pointed to a brown leather chair to the side of an open fire which had a hob in front of it and an oven to the side, both brightly blackleaded, the hearth in front being whitewashed and framed by a brass fender.

Ques suddenly veered to the left, almost grazing the fenders of cars just released from the red light at the intersection of El Centro and Fountain Avenue.

The fenders were pitted with dents and scrapes, one headlight was cracked, and the muffler appeared to be loose.