A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1569-1610
[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
Cors-gard, -gaird, n. Also: crocegaird, crosegaird, croseguard. [e.m.E. corps de gard (1587), F. corps de garde.] A small body of soldiers on guard-duty; the post occupied by these. 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 112.
The watch of the stiple sending one of the croseguard 1569-73 Ib.
They … meiting with the croseguard 1570-3 Bann. Trans. 444.
Had our awin trinches and corsgardis bene weill kepit, … the enemie had never interprysed sic ane fact 1578 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 82.
To watche … vnder the payne of viij s. vnforgevin, to be disponit to the keparis of the corsgaird and keparis of the poirtis on the daylicht1580 Ib. 187.
[The council] ordaynis twa crosegairdis to be sett betwix the trone and croce 1589 Ib. 542.
Ane crocegaird [to be] at the Gray Freir port, and at the West port centinellis 1610 A. Melville in Life II. 530.
My old age doth no lesse crave … an honest retreat from warefare within my own garison and corsgard
You may wish to vary the format shown below depending on the citation style used.
"Cors-gard n.". Dictionary of the Scots Language. 2004. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd. Accessed 14 Dec 2025 <http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/cors_gard>
