foreguard

To guard beforehand.

To guard in front.

A forward guard, or guard placed out front.

The surviving quillon is recurved horizontally and terminates in a small knob, but has adjacent to it a loop-shaped foreguard almost exactly like that on the Montagu sword.

"[...] Rear guard to river-side, river to foreguard, foreguard to land-side, land-side to rear."