reconnoitre
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
noun
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Etymology
Origin of reconnoitre
C18: from obsolete French reconnoître to inspect, explore; see recognize
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He was headed, generally, for Lake Superior, and would reconnoitre once he got to Lake Michigan.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018
The Sunni caliph Mansur, whose new empire stretched from India to the Atlantic, sailed up and down the Tigris to reconnoitre a place for his home.
From Economist ● Jun. 12, 2014
He did not even reconnoitre to discover the whereabouts of the enemy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their base will be so much farther north that they will be able to reconnoitre slowly and widely before making any such dashes as Amundsen's.
From Time Magazine Archive
Smarting under the curious glances and sneers of some of the men, McCullough at last volunteered to go out and reconnoitre.
From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Cyrus Townsend Brady
The citation for temporary Lieutenant Robert Hastings read: "He personally reconnoitred the approach to the position under very severe rifle and machine-gun fire."
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2018
Dubbed Little Nellie, the machine enabled Bond, played by Sean Connery, to fight off a helicopter attack as he reconnoitred a Spectre base hidden in a Japanese volcano.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2013
Toward these well-guarded objectives Mussolini reconnoitred but moved scarcely at all last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Exactly a century ago State surveyors reconnoitred a rail route over Pennsylvania's forested ridges between Chambersburg and Pittsburgh.
From Time Magazine Archive
It reconnoitred the field from the bridge of the nose that twitched with eagerness at the scent of a story, as a pointer snuffs grouse.
From The Lash by Olin L. Lyman
Erisso's daughter Anna, meanwhile, finds herself torn between familial and patriotic loyalties and her attraction to Maometto, whom she had fallen in love with when he was reconnoitring Greece in disguise.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2013
He became active last year as an oratorical scout, reconnoitring British public opinion in advance of the isolationist policies formally adopted by His Majesty's Government last week .
From Time Magazine Archive
By last week, instead of marching, U. S. business was generally marking time, with only a few industries pushing ahead like scouts reconnoitring in enemy territory.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nansen and Sverdrup now made a reconnoitring expedition, and did not return till five o’clock the next morning.
From Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young by Jacob B. Bull
They all saw the vessel reconnoitring and sailing about the offing: the least want of circumspection on their part would thwart the scheme which up to this moment promised success.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold
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