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One who keeps watch
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lookout
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n. 1 A vantage point with a view of the surrounding area. 2 A person on watch for approaching enemy, police, etc. 3 A subject for observation; a prospect or view. 4 One's perspective, outlook; hence, one's responsibility. ''(used with a possessive pronoun ...
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Lookout (1890 in Kentucky – ?) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that is best known for winning the 1893 Kentucky Derby . Lookout was a chestnut colt with full (up to the knee and hock joints) white stockings on three of his legs. His sire, Troubadour ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE sharp ▪ I instructed Peter to keep a sharp lookout for enemy fighters and then to follow me. ▪ Of course they kept a sharp lookout in such congested waters for their own safety. ■ VERB keep ▪ I instructed Peter ...
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An Aberdonian, he resembled one of the black Aberdeen Angus cattle from his native territory: black curls tumbling over a broad forehead, liquid dark eyes always on the lookout for the red rag, wide cheekbones seeming to drag his fleshy nose across his face, full lips always moist.
There were six men about on the deck, watching the sail or keeping lookout, rand the steersman on the steerboard side of the aftercastle raised a hand to Thorsten to signal all was well as he and Aylwin climbed the ladder to the higher deck.
A Chilean man-of-war, the Amazonas, was anchored at Panama on the lookout for a torpedo launch that was expected to arrive for the Peruvian government from New York.
The lookout saw the trouble coming and slid to safety down the backstay, but the mast itself whipped forward under the sudden stress.
Every kitchen maid and barman, matelot and mechanic, hackney driver and barrowman is on the lookout should they make any move to leave the pub.
Siberia, to be on the lookout for any performing bears that demonstrated any tricks or abilities out of the ordinary.
On the bridge, at the bullnose and on the fantail, lookouts were combing the sky with binoculars.
The Hill of Pan became his lookout, its bottom now a formidable rampart of blocks from the gymnasium, and huge stone walls cut off both sides of Canopic Avenue at its intersection with Royal Avenue.
Arm ten good men from the boarding squad, and meet the city manager and me at the Cathedral Parkway lookout.
W, on a spur of Lookout Ridge a mile or two north of the Colville River.
There were two lookouts in the crosstrees, lashed there for safety, and two extra men in the eyes of the ship, peering through the murk.
It was the Claw that they had been ordered to be on the lookout for and this guest was human.
Communications broke down during the holocaust and, without the modern fire jumpers and lookout advance warnings we have today, Hellmouth was doomed.
The rumors spread from the lookouts, excited men who came to Lee with the first reports of troop movement, clouds of dust rising from long lines of black cannon.
We shot along through the open country, between the last Germans and the edge of Malines, at a fairly good rate, and kept a lookout for the English flag, which we had been given to understand was flying from the tower of the Cathedral.