What is "feel out"

Usage examples of "feel out".

It was possible that these were indeed simple ploys, intended only to feel out Bane’.

It was possible that these were indeed simple ploys, intended only to feel out Bane's defenses.

It is a visual impression that I tried to capture by Vulcan mnemonics, but which I will have to feel out as I go.

They were the long-ranged sparring tool an admiral used to feel out his enemy’.

They were the long-ranged sparring tool an admiral used to feel out his enemy's EW and defensive dispositions.

Dealing with any one Tosevite official made Atvar feel out of his league.

Not till nearly evening did they feel out the stockade's defenders, finding them alert and able.

Get in touch with Morris in Prague and have him feel out Wallenstein.

Lightly armed and expendable, filtering forward like tentacles to feel out the local opposition and opportunities.

Alek snarled, used his good leg to kick out with all the anger and agony boiling inside of him and knocked Kansas's feel out from under him.