look-out

See also: lookout and look out

English

Etymology

Deverbal from look out.

Noun

look-out (plural look-outs)

1. Alternative spelling of lookout
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 148:

     Very well—very good indeed. We may get to the coast; but to cross the wide sea, we know not whither, is a dreary look-out.

   • 2021 September 22, Dr Mike Esbester, “Trackside safety: a permanent problem”, in RAIL, number 940, page 78:

     The gang was working without a look-out, six of them with their backs to approaching trains.

Anagrams

• outlook