Crossword clues for bivouacked
bivouacked
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: bivouac)
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, camping ground, encampment, camping area]
v. live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room" [syn: camp, encamp, camp out, tent]
[also: bivouacking, bivouacked]
See bivouac
Usage examples of "bivouacked".
At the spot where we bivouacked, we were surrounded by bold cliffs and steep pinnacles of porphyry.
We had not long bivouacked, before the barefooted son of the governor came down to reconnoitre us.
An Indian family, who had come to trade in a canoe from Caylen, bivouacked near us.
At night we bivouacked under a cloudless sky, and the next morning reached S.
In the inhabited parts we bought a little firewood, hired pasture for the animals, and bivouacked in the corner of the same field with them.
We passed the only house in this neighbourhood, the Estancia of Chaquaio: and at sunset we pulled up in the first snug corner, and there bivouacked.
As there was pasture for the mules, and geology for me, we bivouacked here for the night.
We bivouacked at the foot of the "primera linea," or the first line of the partition of waters.
In the evening we reached a flat little spot on the banks of the same stream, which we had continued to follow, and which descends in a chain of waterfalls: here we bivouacked for the night.
Idomene consists of two lofty hills, the higher of which the troops sent on by Demosthenes succeeded in occupying after nightfall, unobserved by the Ambraciots, who had meanwhile ascended the smaller and bivouacked under it.
Here they bivouacked, and the next day sailed in single file to Syracuse with all their ships except ten which they sent on in front to sail into the great harbour and see if there was any fleet launched, and to proclaim by herald from shipboard that the Athenians were come to restore the Leontines to their country, as being their allies and kinsmen, and that such of them, therefore, as were in Syracuse should leave it without fear and join their friends and benefactors the Athenians.
There were eight long buildings and the Real Compania Irlandesa bivouacked in the two that had been kept in best repair while Sharpe's riflemen camped in one of the magazines close to the gate tower.
The two men had reached a dark open space, out of earshot of any of the bivouacked "We didn't come here by accident' Richard,' Garrard admitted.
The frenchmen rode big horses that gal loped through the marshiand to explode water with every stride, then the leading squadrons reached the higher ground about the village of Nave de Haver where the Spanish partisans had bivouacked and the sound of the French cavalry's hooves turned into a thunder that shook the earth itself.
He'd already intended to have a few words with Garlath about the totally unacceptable delay in getting started, but he'd decided he'd wait until they bivouacked and he could "counsel" his subordinate in private.