| Summary: | camp n 1. [in lumbering] a small wooden building in which men eat and sleep 2. a canvas tent 3. The word "camp" does not always refer to merely a building, but the whole area around the building as well. Thus a person who says he works at camp 17 means the cook-house, bunk-houses, barns, the block of timber around the buildings, and everything connected with the lumber industry in X area. "Camp used in this sense has a vague meaning. It doesn't seem to be confined to any set definition. DNE-cit DNE-cit [WK] Oct 64 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Not used Checked by Cathy Wiseman on Fri 13 Mar 2015; Card marked DNE-cit, but not used.
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