camp, noun2

Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Calque formed on Afrikaans kamp paddock or run.
a. A large enclosed field used as pasture; a paddock. Also attributive.
1877 Queenstown Free Press 25 Sept.He purchased three birds to establish a ‘camp’ at Somerset East in 1853.
c1881 A. Douglass Ostrich Farming 205A farmer with a troop of cattle, if he buys others, should always put them in a camp by themselves for at least three months before he allows them to mix with his own.
1896 Cape Argus 2 Jan. 6Marked improvements are taking place on most farms, especially with regard to wire-fencing, farmers being busy subdividing their farms into camps.
1900 E.E.K. Lowndes Every-Day Life 90Sometimes three or four large pieces will be divided off for the convenience of keeping cattle or ostriches separate; these are not called fields, a term you never hear in this part, but ‘camps’.
1925 L.D. Flemming Crop of Chaff 44There are two kinds of Orange Free State fences — boundary fences and your own camp fences...Your own camp fences you put up yourself.
1941 E. Roux in Bantu World 18 Jan. 5He had gates in the fences so that he could drive the cattle into whichever camp he pleased.
1977 F.G. Butler Karoo Morning 216Get out of this camp, double quick. It’s the bull’s camp.
1988 Farmer’s Weekly 1 Jan. 17Mr Minnaar makes maximum use of 52 camps with rotational grazing and all have stock-proof fencing 1 m high. Each camp is rested for nine to 14 months.
b. With defining words designating a particular type of camp according to its use:
grazing camp;
land camp [see land], an enclosed field for the cultivation of crops;
ostrich camp, see ostrich;
shelter camp;
veld camp, see veld sense 5.
1968 Farmer’s Weekly 3 Jan. 93150 Morgen irrigable rich river loam lands. Sweet veld, 10 land and grazing camps, each with its own water supply.
1921 W.C. Scully Harrow 159When the enemy became..bolder..in their raids, what were called ‘shelter camps’ were formed and to these all remaining animals were ordered to be sent.
A large enclosed field used as pasture; a paddock. Also attributive.
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camp, nounn.1camp, verb transitivev.
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