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home guard

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  See also: home-guard (Indian)  

• 2 Lumbering, Slang, Derog. a logger who works consistently in one camp, especially a family man. Also homeguard.

  • 1919  Camp poorly organized; too many home guards.
  • 1942  You talk of your drums! you home-guard bums should have seen the size of her 'main'!