scouter n.

I soon discovered that off-duty hours on board a rocket scouter were little more than eating and sleeping until the chimes sounded out again. Indeed, there was no recreation room, nothing to read.

I can’t carry passengers on the scouter.

In the little one-man scouter, outside the orbit of Pluto, scouting a scant million miles to one side of the Earth Armada.

I knew I couldn’t fight it out with them; the scouter was just too small.

Doreen came round on her scouter, which she is just about old enough to drive.

If they came in a scouter, it couldn’t have come far, so they must have a Mothership.