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What is an afterguard?

What is an afterguard? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (sailing) The members of a yacht's crew who attend to the aft sails
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Men openly sharpened their knives, and the afterguard ostentatiously showed their pistols.
I also coordinate the afterguard for the meetings and help to decide on our strategy.
I was originally hired as a coach primarily for the afterguard, but also for the whole team.
He's really the afterguard coach whose job is to mould that group into a working team.
Grinders and bowmen are obviously rotated, but the core group in the afterguard has remained the same on both the Italian and the Kiwi boats.
The social gap between this afterguard and Rose and her colleagues in the chorus, was not so very wide, but it was abysmally deep.

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