encampment

[Eng.encamp; -ment.] 1. The act of encamping, or pitching tents. "A square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient for the encampment of twenty you sand Romans."-Gibbon: Roman Empire , ch. i. 2. The place where a body of men is encamped; a camp; the tents, huts, ., provided for men encamping. "Camp-fires for their night encampments On their solitary journey." Long fellow : Song of Hiawatha , xv. *ěn-căn-ker, v . t . [Pref.en=in, and Eng.canker (q. v.).] To canker, to corrode.