WordNet
n. a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings [syn: lookout, observation tower, observatory]
Usage examples of "lookout station".
An observatory on the top doubled as a conning tower, lookout station.
The sec chief had double timed it to the lookout station from Fox Farm, and his lungs were complaining against the strain.
At that moment there was the crack of cannon shot from the slopes of the hill above him, and as he glanced up he saw the feather of gunsmoke drifting away from the lookout station on Signal Hill.
It wound sharply up, around a curve, then out to a lookout station that seemed suspended in space.
At the moment the trembling earth and the weird wailing melody sent the man staggering to die on the bench below the lookout station, the skeletonish figure placed a leather, boxlike case on the ground.
At the height of the hill stood a tumble of worked stone that had once been a lookout station.
He turned away from the railing, crossed the platform, and sat with his back against the wall of the lookout station.