A college errand-boy at Oxford, called a gyp at Cambridge. Also a watchman or a watch. CANT.
·noun A projecting rock. II. Scout ·noun A swift sailing boat. III. Scout ·noun A fielder in a gam...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·add. ·- Orig., a member of the "Boy Scouts," an organization of boys founded in 1908, by Sir R. S. ...