guard

guard is a Verb

Definition:

[1] To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend; to shelter; to shield from surprise or attack; to protect by attendance; toaccompany for protection; to vare for. For Heaven still guards the right. Shak.

[2] To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.

[3] To protect the edge of, esp. with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc. The body of your discourse it sometime guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither. Shak.

[4] To fasten by binding; to gird. [Obs.] B. Jonson.