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Camping   /kˈæmpɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Camping  n.  
1.
Lodging in a camp.
2.
A game of football. (Prov. Eng.)


verb
Camp  v. t.  (past & past part. camped; pres. part. camping)  To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers. "Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we all would sup together."


Camp  v. i.  
1.
To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; often with out. "They camped out at night, under the stars."
2.
To play the game called camp. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Camping" Quotes from Famous Books



... British, finding that by looting our cattle they could get fresh meat for nothing, were no longer forced to be content with bully-beef. They then, like ourselves, killed oxen and sheep; but, unlike us, were very wasteful with it. Often, in the camping places they had vacated, we found the remains of half-eaten ...
— Three Years' War • Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
... Our camping-place was wild and picturesque, and, had it not been for the uncomfortable sensation of not quite knowing what would happen next, our stay at Gwarjak would have been pleasant enough. Even Gerome was depressed and anxious, and the Beila men and escort ...
— A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan • Harry De Windt
... of this period of the campaign—when the army lacked boots and sheepskin coats, was short of provisions and without vodka, and was camping out at night for months in the snow with fifteen degrees of frost, when there were only seven or eight hours of daylight and the rest was night in which the influence of discipline cannot be maintained, when men were taken into that region of death where discipline fails, not for a few hours ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... of the trail. They may have gone to the right or to the left, or may even have doubled back and passed us again at only a few miles' distance. We have no clew whatever to guide us at present, except the certainty that sooner or later the Indians will make for their own camping-ground. That is the exact state of the affair." And Mr. Hardy repeated what he had just said in Spanish to the Gauchos, who ...
— On the Pampas • G. A. Henty
... rescue of little Patty Graham, child of a rich broker who was camping in the woods, from the half-breed LeBlanc. As a reward for their brave deed, Mr. Graham presented them with a specially made wireless telephone outfit, complete with home station and ...
— The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers • Claude A. Labelle


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