Crossword clues for guardsman
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Guardsman \Guards"man\, n.; pl. Guardsmen.
One who guards; a guard.
A member, either officer or private, of any military body called Guards.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person, especially a soldier, who is on guard. 2 (context US English) A member of the National Guard. 3 (context British English) A member of a Guards regiment.
WordNet
n. a soldier who is a member of a unit called `the guard' or `guards'
Wikipedia
Guardsman is a rank used instead of private in some military units that serve as the official bodyguard of a sovereign or head of state. It is also used as a generic term for any member of a guards unit of any rank.
Guardsman was the name of a fictional supervillain/ superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The name was later applied to a small squad of agents. They wear suits of power armor while working security at the Vault. The suits were designed by Tony Stark, better known as the superhero Iron Man.
Guardsman is a military rank.
Guardsman may also refer to:
- Guardsman (comics), the armored character in Marvel Comics
- The Guardsman (1925 film), a 1925 Austrian film
- The Guardsman, a 1931 film
- Son of the Guardsman, 1946 film
- The Grenadier, the first name given to this public house
- ST Guardsman, tugboat
- a soldier of the Guards Division of the British Army
Usage examples of "guardsman".
The two guardsmen there did not know me, and while they greeted me affably enough, they asked no questions.
Real Compaflia Irlandesa low ered the corpse into the deep grave, then Hogan, Sharpe and Harper took off their hats as ather Sarsfield said the prayers in Latin and afterwards spoke in English to the twenty guardsmen.
Run away quickly to Blanche Parry or if you cannot reach her to Dunstan or Ladbroke or your guardsmen.
Handsel Van Deef hired them as guardsmen on Thursday and instructed them to report here this morning.
Marn in force at eleven this morning, a party of myself, two female retriever operators, two retrievers and three armed guardsmen Van Deef hired to protect us.
Your sacs contained your usual result of a night on Marn: that is, spermatozoa of Alfred, Van Deef and the three guardsmen.
Saturday, 18870730:1700 The guardsmen in the Chatterford car fell silent when Van Deef boarded and walked to the end facing the seated men.
One of the guardsmen stooped to retrieve the fallen pistol and threw it underhanded up to Van Deef, who examined it curiously.
Alfred joined Van Deef and his guardsmen in quickly unloading the two wagons, after driving them well away from the rails.
They had grown up together, had become Guardsmen together, and had even endured the hell of Dring together.
Shamil and Enam straightened from laying the fifth guardsman, bound and gagged with strips torn from his own sopping-wet tunic, in a row with the four who were still unconscious.
Almost ten thousand regular army troops and federalized National Guardsmen were in Oxford or the immediate vicinity by midday.
THE MAGNET SWITCH The guardsmen paid not the slightest attention to their wards, for the red men could not move over two feet from the great rings to which they were padlocked, though each had seized a weapon upon which he had been engaged when I entered the room, and stood ready to join me could they have but done so.
As the fiacre passed them, and the Van guardsmen caught sight of the girls within, whistles and wolf howls and appreciative lip-smackings arose.
Guardsmen announced that Julanya Fote and Keraille Surtovni had returned.