What is "bivvy"

Usage examples of "bivvy".

He sends them off to bivvy up in the dark with the hint that another five hours remain between now and dawn.

By 1530, with night bringing down its blackout curtain as the batch finally reached their bivvy point in Brisworthy Wood, Parlour and Collins simultaneously reached breaking point.

It was hard, it was very wet, reinforced by having to strip naked, shove all their clothes and Bergen inside a bivvy bag and push the lot across a freezing pond.

Woodbury Common during their Tenderfoot exercise, claimed to have crawled around their bivvy bags and joked that he was now going to be a mercenary in Bosnia.

Each syndicate also shares a safety Bergen, weighing some 50 lbs, which contains a 24-hour ration pack, a radio, one change of clothes and a bivvy bag, enough for the YOs to survive if Dartmoor turns the climate on its head.

As he did, the wind started to pick up and the bivvy started flapping, hard.

The last two scouts worked at pitching their bedrolls and bivvy sacks in the shadowline of the trees.

In preparation for his return to the trailhead, Murray followed his lead and began packing his bivvy sack and sleeping bag.

He could just have them disperse to the sides of the canyon in their bivvies, but he didn't like the looks of the weather.

Since he knew what he was looking for he could tell where the bivvies were.

In the semi-darkness he could make out, on all sides, lines of hobbled ponies, squatting camels, stacks of merchandise, and low bivvies under which porters and drivers were sleeping round dying fires.