Wiktionary
fingerguard
n. Any device or mechanism designed to prevent the fingers becoming trapped or injured, as in a closing door or a machine.
Usage examples of "fingerguard".
With the measurements done, Lucas handed the grease pencil back to the photographer, looked around, picked up a splinter of wood, pushed it through the fingerguard, behind the trigger, and lifted the pistol from the floor.
I reached Sir Fonid, coming in close enough to lure him into swinging clumsily with his inadequate weapon, knocked it down with the flat of my blade, then arched up in a backswing and clipped him hard in the temple with the fingerguard of my sword.