"afterguard" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "afterguardsman"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "after",
        "3": "guard"
      },
      "expansion": "after- + guard",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From after- + guard.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "afterguards",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "afterguard (plural afterguards)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "39 31 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "63 22 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with after-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter IX, in The Master of Ballantrae, Cassell",
          "text": "There were times when the whole crew refused their duty; and we of the afterguard were twice got under arms—being the first time that ever I bore weapons—in the fear of mutiny.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1924, Herman Melville, chapter 12, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.",
          "text": "Yet from something in the outline and carriage, Billy took him to be, and correctly, one of the afterguard.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of a ship, to attend the after-sails."
      ],
      "id": "en-afterguard-en-noun-EkdJLv7q",
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "seaman",
          "seaman"
        ],
        [
          "after-sails",
          "after-sails"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, nautical) The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of a ship, to attend the after-sails."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sailing",
          "orig": "en:Sailing",
          "parents": [
            "Nautical",
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 July 3, Christopher Clarey, “A Familiar Foe Blocks New Zealand’s Path”, in New York Times",
          "text": "This is his sixth Cup campaign but his first as skipper, a position he inherited after the helmsman Russell Coutts, Butterworth’s longtime alter ego in the afterguard, bolted from Alinghi in 2004.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The members of a yacht's crew who attend to the aft sails"
      ],
      "id": "en-afterguard-en-noun-RjMFiFAm",
      "links": [
        [
          "sailing",
          "sailing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "yacht",
          "yacht"
        ],
        [
          "aft",
          "aft"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sailing) The members of a yacht's crew who attend to the aft sails"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "sailing",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A drudge; somebody tasked with menial work."
      ],
      "id": "en-afterguard-en-noun-HbU0qKtC",
      "links": [
        [
          "drudge",
          "drudge"
        ],
        [
          "menial",
          "menial"
        ],
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "afterguard"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms prefixed with after-"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "afterguardsman"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "after",
        "3": "guard"
      },
      "expansion": "after- + guard",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From after- + guard.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "afterguards",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "afterguard (plural afterguards)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter IX, in The Master of Ballantrae, Cassell",
          "text": "There were times when the whole crew refused their duty; and we of the afterguard were twice got under arms—being the first time that ever I bore weapons—in the fear of mutiny.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1924, Herman Melville, chapter 12, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.",
          "text": "Yet from something in the outline and carriage, Billy took him to be, and correctly, one of the afterguard.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of a ship, to attend the after-sails."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "seaman",
          "seaman"
        ],
        [
          "after-sails",
          "after-sails"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, nautical) The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of a ship, to attend the after-sails."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Sailing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 July 3, Christopher Clarey, “A Familiar Foe Blocks New Zealand’s Path”, in New York Times",
          "text": "This is his sixth Cup campaign but his first as skipper, a position he inherited after the helmsman Russell Coutts, Butterworth’s longtime alter ego in the afterguard, bolted from Alinghi in 2004.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The members of a yacht's crew who attend to the aft sails"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sailing",
          "sailing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "yacht",
          "yacht"
        ],
        [
          "aft",
          "aft"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sailing) The members of a yacht's crew who attend to the aft sails"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "sailing",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A drudge; somebody tasked with menial work."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "drudge",
          "drudge"
        ],
        [
          "menial",
          "menial"
        ],
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "afterguard"
}