campward

English

Etymology

camp +‎ -ward

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Adverb

campward (not comparable)

1. Toward a camp, campwards
   • 1907, Edward A. Moore, The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson‎^[1]:

     Sometimes as many as four or six of our company, having leave of absence at the same time, would rendezvous to return together in the small hours of the night, through Rocketts, where "hold-ups" were not uncommon, and recount our various experiences as we proceeded campward.

   • 1898, Henry Francis Keenan, The Iron Game‎^[2]:

     And as the cheery cry swelled farther and farther, the train drew out, everybody looking from the windows as the patient soldiery straggled back campward. "

   • 1866, George Alfred Townsend, Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,‎^[3]:

     […] if I had foretold these things as they were to occur, I wonder if the "pause before the storm" would have been less awful, and our ride campward less sedate.