encamp Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb live in or as if in a tent
    bivouac; camp; camp out; tent.
    • Can we go camping again this summer?
    • The circus tented near the town
    • The houseguests had to camp in the living room

WordNet

En*camp" intransitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Encamped present participle & verbal noun Encamping
Definitions
  1. 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.
En*camp" transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters.
    Bid him encamp his soldiers. Shak.

Webster 1913