camp, verb transitive

Origin:: AfrikaansShow more Calque formed on Afrikaans afkamp (often found in the construction kamp..af).

Usually in the phrase to camp off.

To divide land and enclose it with fences, creating paddocks. Often passive.

1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 106Camp off a farm, To, To make enclosures.

1973 E. Prov. Herald 20 Sept. 29There is an old house and fowl sheds on the property, which is camped and has a borehole.

To divide land and enclose it with fences, creating paddocks. Often passive.

Derivatives:: Hence camping verbal noun.
1937 Handbk for Farmers (Dept of Agric. & Forestry) 139Improvement of natural veld can be brought about by means of the systematic camping of veld, and the judicious grazing of such camps.

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