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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



... near their open camping-place, he stopped from habit and peeped ahead for a minute. He was about to go down when a movement caught his eye. There, on his haunches, sat a Grizzly, looking down on the camp. The singed brown ...
— Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac • Ernest Thompson Seton
... Caddagat the last of them had gone "down" with horses poor; now they were travelling "up" with their horses—some of them thoroughbreds—rolling fat, and a cheque for their weeks of back-bending labour in their pockets. But whether coming or going they always made to Caddagat to camp. That camping-ground was renowned as the best from Monaro, to Riverina. It was a well-watered and sheltered nook, and the ground was so rich that there was always a mouthful of grass to be had there. It was a rare thing to see it without a fire; and the empty jam-tins, bottles, ...
— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin
... unpacked and scattered over the beds and floors of the hotel, nothing could excel the enthusiasm of the whole party—including myself, for I really had seen nothing in the course of my travels half so amusing. As an old stager in the camping business, I was repeatedly appealed to for advice and assistance, which of course I gave with the natural politeness belonging to all Californians, suggesting many additions. Warming-pans for the sheets, pads of eider-down to wear on the saddles, and bathing-tubs to sit in after a ...
— The Land of Thor • J. Ross Browne
... Angeles, there was a move to another camping ground, "as the Missouri volunteers (Error, New York volunteers—Author) had threatened to come down upon us. A few days later we were called up at night in order to load and fix bayonets, as Colonel Cooke had sent ...
— Mormon Settlement in Arizona • James H. McClintock
... bothered you. I knowed you had it in for Da, so I tried to fool you, and it didn't go. I wish now I had just come out square and said, 'I'm Sam Raften; will you tell me somethin' I want to know, or won't you?' I didn't know you hed anything agin me or me friend that's camping with me." ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton


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