camp-fight

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• Camp

  ·noun To play the game called camp. II. Camp ·noun A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp. I...

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• Camp

  During their journeys across the wilderness, the twelve tribes formed encampments at the different p...

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• camp

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• camp

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• Camp

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• Sea fight

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• camp candlestick

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• camp out

  To encamp out of doors for the night. The surveying party did not always retire to the hut at night...

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• camp, to

  or camp-out In American travel, to rest for the night without a standing roof; whether under a lig...

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• camp-equipage

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• to fight a crib

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• Aid-de-camp

  ·noun An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspon...

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• Aids-de-camp

  ·pl of Aid-de-camp. ...

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• aid-de-camp

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• cowardice, and desertion of duty in fight

  Are criminal by law, even in the crew of a merchant-ship. Such poltroonery is very rare. ...

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