guardamanos
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Verb-object compound, composed of guarda (“to guard (originally)”) + manos (“hands”).
Noun
guardamanos m (plural guardamanos)
- handguard (of a weapon)
Further reading
- “guardamanos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025