ENCAMP

camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent

(verb) live in or as if in a tent; “Can we go camping again this summer?”; “The circus tented near the town”; “The houseguests had to camp in the living room”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

encamp (third-person singular simple present encamps, present participle encamping, simple past and past participle encamped)

(intransitive) To establish a camp or temporary shelter.

(transitive) To form into a camp.

Source: Wiktionary


En*camp", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Encamped; p. pr. & vb. n. Encamping.]

Definition: To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling. The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 1 Chron. xi. 15.

En*camp", v. t.

Definition: To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters. Bid him encamp his soldiers. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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