go on the scout
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, scout.; to go on a scouting mission.
verb
To go into hiding.
Example Sentences
- "Foster wanted Hateher to go on another scout and he told the Lieutenant that if he would pay back his money that he had paid out for the State, so he could get some blankets—as the weather was getting bad—that he would go on the scout."
- "Slocum went on the scout early the next morning. He saddled up Oro in the freezing cold and rode north toward the wild place that had been designated a national park in 1875, Yellowstone."
- "Bloody Feet will choose two warriors and go on the scout to the Iowa nation."
- "The men liked him, respected his knowledge, and his lack of desire to impress. “Chancel,” Major Devereaux said, “I want you to go on the scout.”"
- "Killed a man and hauled him off a mile and a half and threw him over at that place, and went on the scout, and never told anybody about it ?"
- "The word from Tuxie Miller, who had seen Zeke after he returned home with Becca, was that Zeke was so apprehensive about the arrival of the white law that he planned to go on the scout the very next day."