Lookout
['lʊkaʊt] or ['lʊk'aʊt]
Definition
(noun.) the act of looking out.
(noun.) a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings.
(noun.) an elevated post affording a wide view.
(noun.) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event.
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Definition
(n.) A careful looking or watching for any object or event.
(n.) The place from which such observation is made.
(n.) A person engaged in watching.
(n.) Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.
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Examples
- Troops from Lookout Valley carried the point of the mountain, and now hold the eastern slope and a point high up. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He must have passed me when he went up last time, for I was on the lookout below bridge here. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Early on the morning of the 24th Hooker moved Geary's division, supported by a brigade of Cruft's, up Lookout Creek, to effect a crossing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Hooker found but slight obstacles in his way, and on the afternoon of the 28th emerged into Lookout valley at Wauhatchie. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He was never on the lookout to detect a slight, but saw one as soon as anybody when intentionally given. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Hooker's position in Lookout Valley was absolutely essential to us so long as Chattanooga was besieged. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I was perfectly willing that the enemy should keep Lookout Mountain until we got through with the troops on Missionary Ridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The crossing had to be effected in full view of the enemy on the top of Lookout Mountain. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- By ten o'clock the bridge was laid, and our extreme right, now in Lookout valley, was fortified and connected with the rest of the army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I was rather on the lookout for good fortune then. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The river was now opened to us from Lookout valley to Bridgeport. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Spaniards built these watchtowers on the hills to enable them to keep a sharper lookout on the Moroccan speculators. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Hooker will at the same time attack, and, if he can, carry Lookout Mountain. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- His strength on Lookout Mountain was not equal to Hooker's command in the valley below. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She surely couldn't have got off in the night at any of the landings, for I was awake, and on the lookout, whenever the boat stopped. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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