counter-guard

Eight minutes later Sharpe gave Favier the answer that the Frenchman expected, a rejection of the offered terms, and also tossed down a muslin-wrapped leg of bacon that the flag-carrier had to pick up from the broad ledge of the counter-guard.

Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

Now, pushed by officers and Sergeants, the survivors of those conscripts spread along the counter-guard or sheltered in the dry ditch and banged their muskets at the smoke-wreathed wall above them.

Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

The great grey defences of this town, the star-shape of glacis and covered way, of town ditch and counter-guard, of bastion and battery, and he shivered.

Sharpe's Gold Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1981

There were only five ladders for the two columns, which were close together; and a deep cut, made in the bottom of the ditch as far as the counter-guard of the Trinidad, was filled with water from the inundation.

The Young Buglers 1867

a clear admission of the futility of the scheme, -- then, Sir, the sleeping trade laws revive from their trance, and this useless taxation is to be kept sacred, not for its own sake, but as a counter-guard and security of the laws of trade.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763