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Meaning: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seego,scout.; to go on a scouting mission.1908, John M. Elkins,Life on the Texas Frontier, page98: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 wouldgo on the scout.2004, Jake Logan,Slocum and the Teton Temptress:Slocum wenton the scoutearly 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.2013, Gary Dallmann,White Fox: Dakota Warrior, page80:Bloody Feet will choose two warriors andgo on the scoutto the Iowa nation.2005, Louis L'Amour,Under the Sweetwater Rim: A Novel:The men liked him, respected his knowledge, and his lack of desire to impress. “Chancel,” Major Devereaux said, “I want you togo on the scout.”; (idiomatic)To go into hiding.1893,Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court:Killed a man and hauled him off a mile and a half and threw him over at that place, andwent on the scout, and never told anybody about it ?2010, Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana,Zeke and Ned, page172: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 togo on the scoutthe very next day.2012, Loren D. Estleman,Whiskey River:Work like this here's the reason Iwent on the scoutin the first place.
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