Patrol \Pa*trol"\, v. t To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman; as, to patrol a frontier; to patrol a beat.
Patrol \Pa*trol"\, n. [F. patrouille, OF. patouille. See {Patrol}, v. i.] 1. (Mil.) (a) A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts. (b) A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy's whereabouts. (c) The guard or men who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.
2. Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the men thus guarding; as, a customs patrol; a fire patrol.
In France there is an army of patrols to secure her fiscal regulations. --A. Hamilton.
3. See {Boy Scout}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Patrol \Pa*trol"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Patrolled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Patrolling}.] [F. patrouiller, O. & Prov. F. patrouiller to paddle, paw about, patrol, fr. patte a paw; cf. D. poot paw, G. pfote, and E. pat, v.] To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
The organizer of the Wednesday patrol, Bella Gonen, said the settlers began the patrols in April after losing faith in the Israeli army's ability to end the 18-month Palestinian uprising against Israeli rule.
In an interview Tuesday in the N'Djamena, Information Minister Adoum Moussa Seif said Gaba was killed by an army patrol in central Guera province in 1987.
The communique added that a police patrol pursued the other attackers and killed three of them, two men and one woman.
The news agency, quoting a Defense Ministry source, said the mine was discovered by a Kuwaiti naval patrol boat and was detonated.
Police, bolstered by crack paramilitary troops from the federal border patrol, rolled in Wednesday morning with armored personnel carriers and bulldozers and evicted the radicals.
Detectives had been secretly watching Novitis since last week when they noticed the bomb threats were at stores in his patrol zone, and that Novitis would respond and sign all of the incident reports, Henderson said.
Apart from the occasional patrol of Kalashnikov-toting Mujahideen, there is little sign of life. Clearing the mines is a vital first step back towards normality.
Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci said Wednesday at a Pentagon news conference that the commander of the F-14 patrol made the decision to fire at the Libyan aircraft "in self-defense" and apparently shot down both planes.
The prisoner, Jesus, a hill-country Jew who captivated the multitudes, had been arrested by a Roman patrol only last midnight.
Elsewhere in the region, soldiers riding jeeps mounted with machine guns patrol the streets of the larger towns.
The patrolman reported the sighting to a passing patrol car, which stopped to search the passengers.
The military said 12 militiamen and three soldiers were killed Saturday in the ambush of a patrol by guerrillas in Davao del Sur province, 620 miles southeast of Manila.
In a second incident, soldiers shot and wounded two Arabs in the legs in the town of Dura after masked Palestinians stoned a patrol and tried to prevent Arab laborers from boarding a bus to work in Israel, Arab news reports said.
An army patrol in eastern Sri Lanka repelled a guerrilla ambush and killed four Tamil Tiger rebels, and seven more rebels were killed elsewhere around the island nation, military officials said Wednesday.
A U.S. Air Force patrol plane and Navy ship, along with three Japanese patrol boats and a Japanese plane, had been searching for the two sailors since an unexpected wave washed three crewmen overboard Monday from the diesel-powered submarine Barbel.
A U.S. Air Force patrol plane and Navy ship, along with three Japanese patrol boats and a Japanese plane, had been searching for the two sailors since an unexpected wave washed three crewmen overboard Monday from the diesel-powered submarine Barbel.
U.S. enforcement officers will be stationed aboard the patrol vessels.
Naval authorities closed off Cartagena's bay to private boat traffic and were guarding it with frogmen, frigates, high-speed patrol boats and at least one submarine.
While U.S. helicopter pilots were bravely defending themselves against Iranian patrol boats in the Gulf, the Senate's idea of support was to debate whether to limit the flexibility of the commander in chief in helping those pilots succeed.
It said a navy patrol boat was on its way to the Rotuma, 400 miles north of Suva, in case of trouble from the Malmahao clan, whose leader intended to secede from Fiji.
As one sign of increasing tension, the official noted Sunday's firefight between an Israeli military patrol and two Jordanian soldiers who infiltrated into Israel.
Stores were shut in Gaza City on Thursday to mark the death of Omar Ahmed Mansour, who threw a firebomb at an Israeli patrol on Tuesday.
The fight began when a column of Shining Path guerrillas ambushed an army patrol that was returning to its base in Tingo Maria, 200 miles northeast of Lima, officials said Friday.
Al Lorette said 35 to 40 officers extra officers were assigned to patrol the blacked-out area, in addition to about 40 officers who normally work downtown.
They identified the slain patrol leader as Parihaunca Councilman Humberto Calderon but did not give the identity of the farm administrator.
Police in Palmetto, across the Manatee River from Bradenton, were forced to abandon their patrol cars and travel in garbage trucks.
At a news conference Friday, Denver Police Chief Ari Zavaras said Hayhurst cited personal and financial pressures in admitting he walked away from the patrol car, hopped on a motorcycle and left Denver, planning never to return.
For a second straight day, Brussels police answered only calls for help if lives were at stake or did basic administrative work but dropped routine patrol or traffic control work.
No, none of that." Thaler is one of 200 deputies in the Sun City West Posse. Another 200 deputies patrol Sun City.
We're on toad patrol this miserable, rainy March evening, 30 miles west of London.