noun.
Conflict; battle.
noun.
An English form of the game of foot-ball.
To surpass, excel, or outrank (others) in a contest. Compare kemp.
To put into or lodge in a camp, as an army; encamp.
To afford camping-ground for; afford rest or lodging to.
To bury in pits, as potatoes; pit.
To establish or make a camp; go into camp: sometimes with down.
To live in a camp, as an army: as, we camped there three days.
To live temporarily in a tent or tents or in rude places of shelter, as for health or pleasure: generally with out.
noun.
A place where an army or other body of men is or has been encamped; the collection of tents or other temporary structures for the accommodation of a number of men, particularly troops in a temporary station; an encampment.
noun.
A body of troops or other persons encamping together; an army with its camp-equipment.
noun.
In British agri., a heap of turnips, potatoes, or other roots laid up in a trench and thickly covered with straw and earth for preservation through the winter. In some places called a pit, in others a bury.
noun.
A mustering place for cattle.
noun.
[capitalized] In the early history of Australian colonization, the name popularly applied to Sydney, New South Wales, and to Hobart in Tasmania, the British forces being stationed in those places.
noun.
A camping-out expedition, as for fishing, shooting, recreation, or the like; a camp-out.
To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; hence, to strive with others in doing anything.
To wrangle; argue.
To play at the game of camp.
noun.
A caterpillar.