0 present participle of reconnoitre
1 (of soldiers or military aircraft) to get information about an area or the size and position of enemy forces
When we were reconnoitring or skirmishing we had to work on our own.
Flight as a means of reconnoitring the enemy's position became of paramount importance.
I said it was to clear the way by reconnoitring.
It will have to rise much higher before it can be safe for reconnoitring, and great strides will have to be made in the control of its flight.
Reconnoitring ahead of his men, he was wounded in the neck and then hit in the back with a force which flattened him.
He showed great initiative in establishing forward regimental aid posts, reconnoitring their sites beforehand under heavy hostile shell fire, thus greatly assisting the rapid evacuation of casualties.
Holmes continued his habit of personally reconnoitring every part of his line.
