discamp
English edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
discamp (third-person singular simple present discamps, present participle discamping, simple past and past participle discamped)
- (obsolete, transitive) To drive away from a camp.
- 1606, Philemon Holland, De Vita Caesarum, translation of original by Suetonius:
- No enemie put he ever to flight, but he discamped him and draue him out of the field.
References edit
- “discamp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.