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Answer for the clue "Guard's cry ", 4 letters:
halt

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a stop, a halting," 1590s, from French halte (16c.) or Italian alto , ultimately from German Halt , imperative from Old High German halten "to hold" (see hold (v.)). A German military command borrowed into the Romanic languages 16c. The verb in this sense ...

Usage examples of halt.

Halting for refreshment and rest wherever suitable places could be found, and the Adelantado always with the vanguard, in four days they reached the vicinity of the fort, and came up within a quarter of a league of it, concealed by a grove of pine trees.

The Aenean closest to Ivar trembled, rolled over and over, came to a halt and screamed.

Nearly half of the ceiling had collapsed, and the resulting pile of polyp slivers had agglutinated in an alarmingly concave wall, as though the avalanche had halted half-way through.

Halting at last, Rolan opened a narrow door and disappeared into the darkness beyond, whispering for Alec to watch his step just in time to save the boy from tumbling down more stairs that descended less than a pace from the door.

There was an intimacy to the scene that made Alec halt, but before he could withdraw Feeya caught sight of him and broke into a broad, welcoming smile.

Indeed, Alienor had competition for that honor at this moment, for Duncan halted a few paces away to address Eglantine.

If need arose, the Ampersand operation could be halted anytime within the next week-Ferracini and Cassidy at Rome by a message to the American Consulate there, and by similar means in the cases of the others.

Just before sunset Hal called a halt, and they rowed back towards the anchored galleon.

As they approached the assailants halted, and the arquebusiers came forward and took their post in line, to cover by their fire the advance of the storming parties.

Dragged to a halt by the arrestor gear, the MiG paused to spit out the cable, then began following a deck director toward a free space to starboard.

Scant seconds, it seemed, after the COD had been nudged and prodded out of the way, an EA-6B Prowler electronic-warfare aircraft slammed into the deck in a barely controlled crash, yanked to a halt by the arrestor cable.

This layered imaging technique, far more precise than old-fashioned X-raying, allowed one to determine the age of the victim to the decade, judging by the hardening in the articular cartilage and in the blood vessels, since medicine, at the time these people lived, had not yet learned how to halt the changes termed sclerosis.

And yet he felt ashamed that he, as pasha, had not the courage to order a halt, to strike the knives from the hands of the agas.

Volk wird zu ihm halten, auch wenn unsere Aufgabe auf Jahre hinaus nicht leicht sein wird.

The autocar lurched to a halt, and Holmes used the momentum to leap from the seat to the roadway.