(n.) The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.
(n.) An encampment for the night without tents or covering.
(v. i.) To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army.
(v. i.) To encamp for the night without tents or covering.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its boot always held a bivouac bag, a trenching tool of some sort and a towel and trunks, in case he passed somewhere interesting to sleep, dig, or swim.
(2) By evening, I found myself agreeing to pitch a tent on the banks of the Arno for an illegal bivouac in the heart of Florence.
(3) Water bottles, sweet wrappers, sanitary towels and footprints are telltale signs, as is a bivouac made from bushes to shelter the migrants from the heat of the day so they can continue their journey at night.
(4) It’s insanity, of course, and we knew that we would be in the frame as soon as the robbery happened, but it’s the same madness, I suppose, that drives people to bivouac on the north face of the Eiger.” But, like some of the Hatton Garden crew, they had left too many clues behind.
(5) It's insanity, of course, and we knew that we would be in the frame as soon as the robbery happened but it's the same madness, I suppose, that drives people to bivouac on the north face of the Eiger.
Encampment
Definition:
(n.) The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.
(n.) The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Filipinos, occupying two UN encampments, refused and fought the rebels on Saturday.
(2) In subsequent years, armed with his trusty sword, Excalibur (a superannuated prop from John Boorman 's film of the same name), he persistently challenged the law against assembling at Stonehenge, while the site itself grew increasingly to resemble one of the military encampments on nearby Salisbury Plain.
(3) The traditional Bedouin Arab lifestyle (living in tents or huts and in traditional or transitional encampments) contributed strongly to increased duration of breast feeding.
(4) Still, the woman said she never felt threatened by the residents of the homeless encampment.
(5) Fire pits and heat lamps had been set up, and from the tented encampment people handed out food – pizza, spaghetti, and fried chicken – to the crowd.
(6) My defence asked the judge to test whether our encampment outside the stock exchange could claim to be acting in the interests of "democratic society" and constituted a response to a "pressing social need" – in line with the relevant provisions in the European convention on human rights, and the Human Rights Act.
(7) Standing Rock protest: North Dakota governor orders immediate evacuation Read more As the first snows have fallen and more protesters arrive in support, apprehension at the encampments about the coming days is running high.
(8) And yet, as was clear talking to the ministers, current and former, seeking shelter from the Westminster drizzle in the media encampment of satellite trucks and makeshift tents on College Green, those who want Brown gone look weak too.
(9) At least 30,000 made it to Dawson City, which mushroomed from a small encampment to a city of 16,000 in two years.
(10) The cathedral is not taking legal action to remove the encampment from its doorstep, but has always acknowledged the corporation's right to do so.
(11) Reuters reports that anti-government protesters encamped in Kiev’s central Independence Square are deeply sceptical of any announcement from the Russian-backed president.
(12) Since Yanukovych's fall, the encampment in the centre of Kiev, known as Maidan, has dwindled to a fraction of its original size as many activists have either headed back to work or signed up to join government forces battling the rebels in the east.
(13) In the summer of 2012, it was also briefly home to a small protest encampment .
(14) A makeshift encampment of migrants near the Calais ferry port.
(15) The corporation claims the encampment obstructs the public highways around the cathedral, and is seeking to remove tents and other structures from the area.
(16) The RAF has the capacity to fly the entire encampment in a matter of days and the cost might be covered by the Dfid budget, says Tim Cross, a retired major general now working in the voluntary sector.
(17) Funded by an anonymous $3m donation – most likely from a member of the new tech elite – it allows encampments to move in en masse.
(18) Vardy is better suited to counterattacking whereas England were virtually encamped in the opposition half during the late exchanges.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest One of the military encampments in Marib province, where fighters opposed to the Houthis are stationed.
(20) The first group of 35 peacekeepers was then successfully escorted out of a UN encampment in Breiqa by Irish and Filipino forces on board armoured vehicles.