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third-person singular simple present reconnoitres, present participle reconnoitring, simple past and past participle reconnoitred
(transitive, intransitive, military) To perform a reconnaissance (of an area; an enemy position); to scout with the aim of gaining information. quotations
Not a drop of rain fell; the clouds went portentously off, like ships of war after reconnoitering a strong fort, to return with added strength and fury.
1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], page 150
(obsolete) To recognise. quotations
As to my person, it will not be so easy to reconnoitre it, for I question whether any of it will remain
1765, Horace Walpole, The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, Esq
plural reconnoitres
An act or instance of reconnoitring. examples