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Encamping

Encamp \En*camp"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Encamped (?; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Encamping.] To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling.

The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
--1 Chron. xi. 15.

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encamping

vb. (present participle of encamp English)

Usage examples of "encamping".

The rest still continued to blockade the city, encamping in the best manner they could behind the Heights of Abraham, and being still commanded by Arnold.

Rhine, the allies encamping opposite, and occupying Frankfort as their head-quarters.

Nevertheless, they persisted in their design of passing the Danube and encamping at Blenheim.