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The "P" of PT boat
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patrol
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a detachment used for security or reconnaissance the activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes a group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security [also: patrolling , patrolled ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Patrol \Pa*trol"\, n. [F. patrouille, OF. patouille. See Patrol , v. i.] (Mil.) A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the ...
Usage examples of patrol.
Patrol through the Grass Hills-or watch the white walls of the Accursed Forest for some giant stun lizard or cat big enough to cross the wards and take cattle or sheep.
If they survive their patrols against the barbarians, they will get patrol post commands on the edge of the Accursed Forest.
After two days of riding the wall, and time spent in the evening studying the ward-wall patrol manual that Maran had provided, his eyes tend to blur whenever he looks toward the chaos and whitened granite that prisons the Accursed Forest.
The six were assigned to intermediate air patrol and at the end of their patrol were to rendezvous with Martin and fly back to Bomber One.
Our patrols slipped down darkened trails to set ambushes or to be ambushed themselves.
Led by a classmate from Quantico, a black officer named Adam Simpson, a twenty-eight-man patrol was ambushed by two hundred VC and almost annihilated.
He must make his stand here and balk the encroaching patrol if he could.
Similar things had happened in various firefights and patrols since, though nothing quite as dramatic as the Australian event, and when he had felt the cold touch of it on his shoulder, he had barkened to it.
Parked in front were two NPS patrol cars: Randy Thigpen and Barth Dinkin.
The thatched roofs of the more primitive type of cabins looked bedrabbled, like the hair of a bather emerging from the lake, and the more substantial shelters were crowded with the overflow from these and from tents deserted by troops and patrols that had been almost drowned out.
Start the patrols in close and have them gradually fan out, but keep them in sight of the berm at all times.
Jair would tell him what had befallen, persuade him to send patrols south in search of his parents so that they could be warned of the danger that waited in the Vale, and then all of them would take refuge in the city until Allanon returned with Brin and Rone.
Patrol, since then he would not only have placed our outfit in an uncomfortable position, but, no longer extraditable, would be entitled to its protection from his fellow citizens.
Gorm was off patrolling his estates, and a housecarl had brought him a morning meal of honey cakes and ale a short time ago.
Krondorian patrol, who turned northward, while Jimmy and Malar continued southwest.