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scout 1. (esp at Oxford University) a college servant 2. Obsolete (in Britain) a patrolman of a motoring organization scout [skau̇t] (engineering) An engineer who makes a preliminary examination of promising oil and mining claims and prospects. (navigation) To search an area by following an orderly pattern of courses. A craft engaged in search. Scout [skau̇t] (aerospace engineering) A four-stage all-solid-propellant rocket, used as a space probe and orbital test vehicle; first launched July 1, 1960, with a 150-pound (68-kilogram) payload. Scout Tonto’s horse. [TV: “The Lone Ranger” in Terrace, II, 34; Radio: “The Lone Ranger” in Buxton, 143] See : Horse How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I have carried him thousands and thousands of miles on scout duty for the army, and there's not a gorge, nor a pass, nor a valley, nor a fort, nor a trading post, nor a buffalo-range in the whole sweep of the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains that we don't know as well as we know the bugle-calls. And as he thus sat deep in thought a scout came running in all haste and cried, 'Arise They were proceeding onward without noise, when a scout who had been creeping about the ditches all night, to warn any stragglers from encroaching further on what was now such dangerous ground, peeped cautiously from his hiding-place, and called to them to stop. |
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