page_title: Lookout
hierarchical_section_title: Lookout
caption_attribution_description: English: Lookout boy aloft, by Harrison Weir, Image Appears In: Pictures and Prattle for the Nursery, Date Image Published: 1880?
context_page_description: A lookout or look-out is a person in charge of the observation of hazards. The term originally comes from a naval background, where lookouts would watch for other ships, land, and various dangers. The term has now passed into wider parlance.
context_section_description: A lookout or look-out is a person in charge of the observation of hazards. The term originally comes from a naval background, where lookouts would watch for other ships, land, and various dangers. The term has now passed into wider parlance.
caption: Lookout boy aloft, by Harrison Weir
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