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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



... estate at Redford comprised some eighty acres. Within five minutes' walk of the house was a sheet of water covering fully fifty acres known as Simmons' Pond. On the farther side of the pond were a few cottages and near them a tent indicating the presence of a camping party. ...
— The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks • Charles Felton Pidgin
... Mineola flying field, N. Y. to try out new Bagby monoplane I have bought. Not much accomodation here yet. Many of us housed in tents. Not enough hangars. We sit around and tell lies in the long grass at night, like a bunch of kids out camping. Went over and had a beer at Peter McLoughlin's today, that's where Glenn Curtiss started out from to make his first flight for Sci. ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis
... the unspeakable glory of the ranges and poured its glory down upon the Pass, then swung westward, leaving a chill shadow beside the rock where Douglas was camping. It was mid-afternoon when the stage came through from the half-way house. ...
— Judith of the Godless Valley • Honore Willsie
... on I'd be a popular hero now! First Formers would copy my socks and neckties and say 'Good morning, Mister Byrd,' and the Review would refer to me as 'that sterling player, Full-back Byrd.' And Harvard and Yale and Princeton scouts would be camping on my trail and offering me valuable presents and taking me to lunch at clubs. Oh, I had a narrow escape, I can tell you! When I think how narrow I shudder." He proved it by having a sort of convulsion ...
— Left Tackle Thayer • Ralph Henry Barbour
... burning cheerfully. And over it, on an iron hook-stanchion, was suspended a prairie cooking "billy," from which a steaming aroma, most appetizing at that hour of the morning, was issuing. Various camping utensils were scattered carelessly about, and a perfect atmosphere of ...
— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum


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