scouting
noun
an act or instance of reconnoitering; reconnaissance.
scoutingly
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a word derived from
scouting.
Example Sentences
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One of the men laughed scoutingly, but the other growled out, “Let the fool have his fling, and give me a light, Carson; my pipe’s gone out in this cursed spray.”
From Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas by Sara Beaumont Kennedy
