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scouting

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scout·ing  (skoutng)
n.
1. The act of one that scouts.
2. often Scouting The activities of the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts.
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Noun1.scoutingscouting - exploring in order to gain information; "scouting in enemy territory is very dangerous"
exploratory survey, reconnoitering, reconnoitring
reconnaissance, reconnaissance mission - the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy); "an exchange of fire occurred on a reconnaissance mission"
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This I, scouting alone, beheld, Once, twice and again!
The Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
He must on, and on, till somewhere, some time, he encountered another man, or other men, from the other side, scouting, as he was scouting, to make report, as he must make report, of having come in touch.
The Night-Born by London, Jack View in context
I was out with a small scouting party and found your body, full of bullet-holes and newly scalped-- somewhat mutilated otherwise, too, I am sorry to say--right where you say you made your fight.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
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