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scoutship

n. (context scifi English) A spaceship that carries out reconnaissance.

Usage examples of "scoutship".

George Whatever-His-Name-Was, and I walked up the scoutship ramp, me feeling totally betrayed.

There was none of the stomach upsetting moment of transition as we shifted from the artificial gravity of the Ship to the artificial gravity of the scoutship of which George had just warned us, though there might have been.

Just take a slide rule and figure the number of scoutship loads it would take.

Then I helped Rachel Yung do the same, and we went down together to First Level and the scoutship bay.

The scoutship swung up in the sky in a movement that would drop the stomach out of anybody aboard.

In the light of the torches we could see the scoutship with its ramp down.

The keg was heavy and I concentrated simply on running for the scoutship ramp.

They had obtained a scoutship by some low method and had intended to use it against us.

Tattersfield, a man in a small scoutship turned and spoke to the brain of his ship.

A few meters from where Michel drifted amid his small bodyguard of technicians, suited, watchful and mostly silent, the scoutship that was to pace him on his first circuit of Miranda rested, still docked against the hemispherical bulk of the operations building.

The two men were easier to hear, now, walking toward the scoutship and about to enter it.

The people aboard would goggle at him through their screens and ports, and wonder also at the scoutship full of angry radio voices on his tail.

But the scoutship that had been following him was now suddenly bulking almost against him, forcing him with delicate precision to change his flight path, urging him almost against the jagged rock that sped below.

The patrol craft were beaten off, the one spaceborne scoutship knocked down and crippled, the operations building effectively isolated inside the stubborn knot of its automated defenses.

At last a scoutship was launched, with Command Pilot Colonel Frank Marcus and re-drafted quasi-civilian Elly Temesvar aboard, ready to do their fanciest flying.