Outpost is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OUTPOST in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a remote settlement or stronghold
• a small military camp or position at some distance from the main army, used especially as a guard against surprise attack
• a remote part of a country or empire
• an isolated or remote branch of something
• outlying settlement
• A post or station without the limits of a camp, or at a distance from the main body of an army, for observation of the enemy.
• The troops placed at such a station.
• a station in a remote or sparsely populated location
• a settlement on the frontier of civilization
• a military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a body of troops stationed at a distance from the main body

Words related to OUTPOST

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Words that contain OUTPOST

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How to use OUTPOST in a sentence

• Our men, not anticipating it, are perplexed by the sudden affair, and the cohort on the outpost scarcely sustains the first attack.
• During the retreat the outpost for the night usually forms the rear guard the next day.
• The troops composing the outpost are generally divided into a reserve and several supports.
• Supports on the flank of an outpost position patrol the country on the exposed flank.
• When it was day, the outpost withdrawn first occasioned surprise, then, on a nearer approach, the unusual stillness.
• The Carthew Arms, the small but very comfortable inn, was a mere appendage and outpost of the family whose name it bore.
• It was only a small Belgian outpost, but it was a good enough position to hold, so long as the enemy did not bring up artillery.
• Half a mile down the road was a farmhouse held by a Belgian outpost, and beyond this, and perhaps half a mile away from it, were two other farms occupied by the Germans.
• It was known one morning in the trenches at Pervyse that several of their comrades in the farm had been injured in an outpost engagement.
• Such a supper could not fit a man for outpost duty for the night, nor give him good sleep after the toils of the day.
• On a spur beside it I was told a British outpost was stationed.
• On the way we passed a battalion of men who had been on outpost duty with nothing but a biscuit and a half apiece.
• The commanders of several forts sent to Trochu to say that they have fired on the Prussians, and that there have been small outpost engagements.
• The outpost of the newly born communities, established in the Straits of Magallanes in the South, must be held with undiminished vigor and determination.
• One day Paul was doing duty as a sentinel on an outpost, when a large, fat hare appeared on a little hillock not thirty yards from where he stood.
• The reserve may comprise one-fourth to two-thirds of the strength of the outpost.
• In like manner the commander of the whole force may order detached posts to be sent from the main body to cover important roads or localities not included in the outpost line.
• ESTABLISHING THE OUTPOST The outpost is posted as quickly as possible, so that the troops can the sooner obtain rest.
• The outpost commander, upon receipt of this order, should issue the outpost order with the least practicable delay.
• He was on outpost, but would be relieved and sent to Ermita as quickly as possible.
• Zane had determined, long before, that in the event of another siege, he would use his house as an outpost.
• Baltimore, as an isolated secession outpost, found, even in the short space of a week, that business was destroyed and that she was suffering every day financial loss.
• It was an Indian canoe, the first outpost of the savage force, and its occupant, promptly firing a rifle, raised a long, warning shout.
• It was on the night of January fifth that Jack penetrated the British lines in a snow-storm and got close to an outpost in a strip of forest.
• From the outpost line large bodies of the enemy were observed advancing over Long Hill.
• The four companies of the Regiment on outpost duty suffered very severely, as they were without fires, none being allowed in the outpost line.
• The house in question was occupied as an outpost by thirty-six Boers, who fired upon some companies of British troops.

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