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Definition of Reconnoitre

Reconnoitre
Reconnoiter Rec`on*noi"ter, Reconnoitre Rec`on*noi"tre (r?k`?n*noi"t?r), v. t. [F. reconnoitre, a former spelling of reconna[^i]tre. See Recognize.] 1. To examine with the eye to make a preliminary examination or survey of; esp., to survey with a view to military or engineering operations. 2. To recognize. [Obs.] --Sir H. Walpole.

Meaning of Reconnoitre from wikipedia

- and to recon (in American English), both derived from the root word reconnoitre / reconnoitering. The types of reconnaissance include patrolling the...
- Press. ISBN 978-0-521-15255-6. Windsor Lewis, Jack (1990). "HappY land reconnoitred: the unstressed word-final -‍y vowel in General British pronunciation"...
- operation and he tails the dealer to Switzerland. Bond is captured when he reconnoitres Goldfinger's plant and is drugged unconscious; Goldfinger then transports...
- advance from the south by troops landed at Åndalsnes. He flew to Namsos to reconnoitre the location before the troops arrived. When his Short Sunderland flying...
- retreat, Wellington too had to retreat. He fell back to a previously reconnoitred position on an escarpment at Mont St Jean, a few miles south of the village...
- 15 May, SBS teams were inserted by HMS Brilliant at Grantham Sound to reconnoitre and observe the landing beaches at San Carlos Bay. On the evening of...
- HMS Fifi was an armed **** steamer, captured from the Germans by Royal Navy units during the Battle for Lake Tanganyika, and used to support Anglo-Belgian...
- Crimea, Private Stanlake, when emplo**** as a sharpshooter, volunteered to reconnoitre, and although he was warned of the dangers he would encounter, crawled...
- April after having been bombed twice en route. After spending the day reconnoitring the coastline, at 4:15 am on 30 April, Seraph surfaced. Jewell had the...
- by this direct route. A body of his knights, which he had sent out to reconnoitre under Sir William Felton, was defeated by a skirmishing party, and he...