guardamanos

Spanish

Alternative forms

• guardamano

Etymology

Verb-object compound, composed of guarda (“to guard (originally)”) +‎ manos (“hands”).

Noun

guardamanos m (plural guardamanos)

1. handguard (of a weapon)

Further reading

• “guardamanos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28