Camping
['kæmpɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp.
Inputed by Frances--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb n.) of Camp
(n.) Lodging in a camp.
(n.) A game of football.
Typed by Joan
Examples
- She said that the city in which we were camping was supposed to have been a center of commerce and culture known as Korad. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I simply said, If you call this camping out, all right--but it isn't the style I am used to; my little baggage that I brought along is at a discount. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- At Solutré in France there are traces of a great camping and feasting-place. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If the camping site is abandoned at the close of the vacation, the pump can be removed and kept over winter for use the following summer in another place. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This fashion of camping out bewilders me. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They call this camping out. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The cost of material need not exceed $5 for a 10-foot well, and the driving of the pipe could be made as much a part of the camping as the pitching of the tent itself. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- What is to disprove that this tribe, instead of camping under palm groves in Asia, wandered beneath island oak woods rooted in our own seas of Europe? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To-night we are camping near the same valley, and have a very wide sweep of it in view. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And they call this camping out. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The 3d infantry had selected camping grounds on the reservation at Fort Jessup, about midway between the Red River and the Sabine. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Editor: Percival