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Lookout   /lˈʊkˌaʊt/   Listen
Lookout

noun
1.
A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event.  Synonyms: lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch.
2.
An elevated post affording a wide view.  Synonym: observation post.
3.
A structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings.  Synonyms: lookout station, observation tower, observatory.
4.
The act of looking out.  Synonym: outlook.



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"Lookout" Quotes from Famous Books



... commissary. Dobbins Wesson was regiment mail boy, then Rufus W. Gardner took his place. William Green shot and killed himself while hunting deserters. David Philbeck was the first man to die; he died of measles. Ben. A. Jenkins was the last man to die; he died in Point Lookout prison. ...
— The Southern Soldier Boy - A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy • James Carson Elliott

... well to the middle of the space above the street. At every other yard they kept a sharp lookout for the inhabitants; but so far as they could see, their ...
— The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life • Homer Eon Flint

... the lookout way up on the dizzy mast see a light way off on the horizon, and then the night came down dark, and when the sun wuz riz up—lo! right before 'em lay the shores of the New World. And the Man's and the Woman's belief wuz proved true—and the gainsayin' World wuz proved wrong. ...
— Samantha at the World's Fair • Marietta Holley

... his wife's mother, who was there and saw the sad occurrence notwithstanding it is at least likely, though not necessarily so, that she should be reconnoitering in another direction when incidents occur, not being vivacious and on the lookout, as a general thing, but even the reverse, as her own mother is said to have stated, who is no more, but died in the full hope of a glorious resurrection, upwards of three years ago, aged eighty-six, being a Christian woman and without ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes - Mystic-Humorous Stories • Various

... bread-baskets; a fisherman was mending his nets in front of his door; others were lounging "down to quay pool" to prepare for their evening drift-fishing. A little further on, at a certain abrupt turning called the "lookout," where visitors stop to breathe and villagers to gossip, one could catch a glimpse of the beach and "Crazed Kate's Cottage," the drying-ground for nets, the lifeboat house, the pier, and ...
— Penelope's Postscripts • Kate Douglas Wiggin


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