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ranging [′rānj·iŋ]
(ordnance)
Wide-scale scouting, especially by aircraft, designed to search an area systematically.
Locating an enemy gun by watching its flash, listening to its report, or other similar means.
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And at night, you urge me, with great mystery, to start before the ladies are stirring; the consequence of which is, that young Oliver here is pinned down to his breakfast when he ought to be ranging the meadows after botanical phenomena of all kinds.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context
It was one of those snug, lucrative berths of which there are so many more nowadays than there used to be, with incomes ranging from one thousand to fifty thousand roubles.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
During a brief interval, employed by the pupils in ruling their books, my eye, ranging carelessly over the benches, observed, for the first time, that the farthest seat in the farthest row--a seat usually vacant--was again filled by the new scholar, the Mdlle.
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