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Definition of Lookout station
1. Noun. A structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings.
Specialized synonyms: Observation Dome, Widow's Walk
Generic synonyms: Construction, Structure
Derivative terms: Look Out
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lookout Station
Literary usage of Lookout station
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Mexico and Her Lost Provinces: A Journey in Mexico, Southern California by William Henry Bishop (1883)
"... lookout station. At frequent intervals is encountered too some abandoned old
adobe barracks, or government house, or military prison of historic fame, ..."
2. Mexico, California and Arizona: Being a New and Revised Edition of Old by William Henry Bishop (1889)
"... lookout station. At frequent intervals is encountered too some abandoned old
adobe barracks, or government house, or military prison of historic fame, ..."
3. History of Salt Lake City by Edward William Tullidge (1886)
"You will keep ten men at the lookout station on the heights of Yellow ...
Teamsters or deserters must not be permitted to come to your lookout station. ..."
4. Our National Forests: A Short Popular Account of the Work of the United by Richard Hans Douai Boerker (1918)
"A forest fire lookout station at the summit of ... Turner Mountain lookout station,
Lassen National Forest, California. This is a 10 ft. by 10 ft. cabin ..."
5. History of New South Wales from the Records by George Burnett Barton (1894)
"... and with the view of South nead discovering their appearance on the coast at
the earliest possible moment, a lookout station was established at South ..."
6. Great Lakes Pilot...1921 by United States Hydrographic Office (1921)
"lookout station No. 4 to lower gas buoy No. 12 •Upper dam to lower dam Lower gas
... 12 to lookout station No. 5 lookout station No. 5 to lower cribs Nos. ..."
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