watch guard

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   short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket watch to a man's vest

   Synonymsfobwatch chain

   Broaderchain

Questions about watch guard

What does watch guard mean?

watch guard means "short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket watch to a man's vest".

What is another word for watch guard?

Close synonyms include fob, watch chain. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is watch guard a common word?

watch guard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.