scouting
skow ting
- n exploring in order to gain information
scouting in enemy territory is very dangerous - v explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody
- Seven months after Sergeant Christopher LeJeune started scouting Baghdad's dangerous roads acting as bait to lure insurgents into the open so his Army unit could kill them .
- Japanese scouting planes reported two separate systems of Chinese entrenchments defending Chinchow, complete with 58 pieces of artillery strategically placed.
- Indian police, backed by British Spitfire scouting planes and armored cars, battled mobs of both factions.