afterguard

[Eng. after; guard.] Naut. ( specially in the Royal Navy): The Beamen stationed on the poop of a ship to attend to the after sails. (Marine Dict.) * after-hand, s. A future labourer; one of a coming generation. "Whence after - hands may move the world." Tennyson: Prince , iii. 246. [Eng. after ; help .] Help after-help, s. given subsequently. "For other after - helps , the want of intention in the priest may frustrate the ma of the prerogative of virtue."-Sir E. Sandys: State of Religion,