camp down

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camp down - establish or set up a camp

camp

pitch, set up - erect and fasten; "pitch a tent"

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I's jest gwine to camp down, and sleep while I ken."

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Let me tell you I have store both of rugs and cloaks, and shall not permit the son of my old friend Ulysses to camp down on the deck of a ship--not while I live--nor yet will my sons after me, but they will keep open house as I have done."

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Parts of the fences were cut and it meant visits from bailiffs or attempts to close the camp down.

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After that, the city shut the camp down and made a big deal out of it.

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Since then, Umme has needed 24-hour medical care, yet I am told that in just over a week she will have to go back to the family's shelter in the squalid camp down the road.

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Then I hiked another 10 miles from camp down a gnarly canyon in search of rams.

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She explained: "I was working as an entertainer in a holiday camp down south.

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French authorities had made several attempts to shut the camp down. The latest attempt began (http://www.ibtimes.com/calais-jungle-camp-demolition-france-begins-shifting-migrants-photos-2435881) Monday with migrants boarding buses that took them to various reception centers around the country.

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This is boat races in the dark and telling the duck camp down the road it's been tough lately when you've shot limits four days this week.

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The DLI's job was to help the Royal Medical Corp identify the living from the dead, bury the corpses and burn the camp down.

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This week players have spoken about how clarification on John Carver's short-term future has settled the camp down.

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Be it ice pad or ice road for access, you have to get in late December or January, get the camp down, get it set up, and get whatever you are doing there--construction or drilling or seismic, whatever reason you need to have warm bodies on site and in quantity--get it up and running.