0 (of soldiers or military aircraft) to get information about an area or the size and position of enemy forces --
Then they slipped into the woods, reconnoitered carefully for a little while, finding nothing hostile, and returned to the river.
Occasionally he would stop and apparently reconnoiter, and then cautiously advance.
All day scouting parties in taxicabs kept appearing on the sandy plain to reconnoiter the fleet and fortress.
Here we stayed a couple of days, while our reconnoitering details went forward and familiarized themselves with the position.
The homes that he intended to plunder had been selected long before, and the premises in each case thoroughly reconnoitered.
It is right that the house should be reconnoitered without delay, but for us to do that in a body would be inviting defeat.
Then a party set out on foot to reconnoiter the land.
They descended, reconnoitered the corridor carefully, and retraced their steps.
