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Live in or as if in a tent
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bivouacking
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of bivouac English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling" [syn: camp , encampment , cantonment ] a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent [syn: campsite , campground , camping site ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bivouac \Biv"ouac\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bivouacked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bivouacking .] (Mil.) To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army. To encamp for the night without tents or covering.
Usage examples of bivouacking.
Beyond the farm windows there was a pretty sprinkling of firelight where the nearest battalions were bivouacking on a hillside.
The soldiers who were bivouacking below on the pavement, caught sight of them and began to shout, "Ah!
A squadron of the Municipal Guard is bivouacking in the Place Dauphine.
Some of the soldiers were bivouacking against the house, had build up a fire, the ruddy glow of which, together with the flicker of resin torches, thew a weird and uncertain light into the room.
His arquebusiers and pikemen, bivouacking round the spluttering fires, striving to keep the damp air out of their stiffening limbs.
Garrard said fondly of his company which was bivouacking in the open space inside the northern ramparts where the Portuguese campfires burned bright in the dusk.
One company had gone straight to the magazine where Sharpe and his men were bivouacking while most of the second company had spread into a skirmish line that was now advancing fast among the barracks blocks.
The tents, and the men wrapped in their blankets and bivouacking on skins in the open air, surrounded the baggage at night.
The English army in the Peninsula, and their Spanish and Portuguese allies, are bivouacking on the western side of the Plain, about six miles from the town.
In the shadows that muffle all objects, innumerable bodies of infantry and cavalry are discerned bivouacking in and around the village.
After bivouacking with the army in the precinct of Nemean Zeus, in which the poet Hesiod is said to have been killed by the people of the country, according to an oracle which had foretold that he should die in Nemea, Demosthenes set out at daybreak to invade Aetolia.
However, the Athenians who happened to be bivouacking outside took the alarm and came out to meet him, upon seeing which he quickly led his men back again.
Billot jumped off her back, and approaching a group of soldiers in blue and yellow uniform, who were bivouacking under the trees by the road-side, "Comrades," said he to them, "can you tell me what there is going on at Paris?
We pitched our tents in a high field and went through the entire exercise of bivouacking, taking our sacks inside and lying down six men to a tent.
Instead their regiments were bivouacking all along the Rapidan's southern bank, and it was there, in the heart of Virginia, that the threat existed, and it was there, thanks to Adam's timely message, that Galloway could both strike at the enemy and establish a rakish, hell-raising reputation for his fledgling regiment of cavalry.