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▪ I. † ˈcamper1 Obs. or dial.
[f. camp v.1 + -er1.]
1. A player at camp-ball; a foot-ball player.
c1440Promp. Parv. 60 Campar or pleyar at foott balle. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 60 Get campers a ball, to campe therewithall. Ibid. 64 In medow or pasture (to growe the more fine) let campers be camping in any of thine.
2. ? A contentious person; a wrangler. Cf. camp v.1 4.
1730Oldmixon Hist. Ho. Stuart 281 Women of quality are wont to be campers.
▪ II. camper2|ˈkæmpə(r)|
[f. camp n.2, v.2 + -er.]
†1. One who belongs to a camp, or to the camp (cf. camp n.2 3); a soldier, military man; a camp-follower. Obs.
1631R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creat. xi. §1. 99 They promise..more than Saul to his Courtiers and Campers. 1691New Disc. Old Intreague xvi. 8 The running Campers.
2. One who goes into camp, or encamps; one who lives or lodges in a camp or tent. camper out: one who lodges in a camp or tent in the open.
1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. ix. 92 As ingeniously..crowded together as the campers-out in a buffalo-bag. 1869Daily Tel. 5 July, The new campers this year are the 7th Surrey, the 19th Surrey, and the London Irish. 1883American VII. 169 A true and circumstantial delineation of the camper's life in the Maine forests.
3. One who takes part in a camp-meeting. U.S.
1806L. Dow Trav. II. 61 We held Quarterly-meeting on Clarke's creek; some supposed I would get no campers... This prepared the way for the Camp-meeting. 1883Chicago Advance 16 Aug., At the Sabbath services none but the regular campers were in attendance.
4. Chiefly N. Amer. A motor vehicle designed with a rear unit furnished with beds and other equipment for camping; = caravanette; also, a trailer furnished in this manner. pick-up camper: see pick-up a. c. Also attrib., esp. as camper shell, and camper-van (cf. caravan 4).
1960Better Homes & Gardens (U.S.) May 155/1 These campers travel so well, even at road speeds, that you hardly know you're towing one. 1967R. Brautigan Trout Fishing in Amer. 61 There were too many trailers and campers parked. 1970N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon ii. 39 He and a friend..loaded their sons into a camper, drove to Cocoa Beach, camped out, fished and surfed. 1979Time 2 July 23 A state policeman helps the campers and pickups thread in among the giant semis barreling along Route 25.
attrib.1961Sunset Feb. 39/1 The length of the camper unit a truck can take depends on the truck bed. 1973S. Trueman Fascinating New Brunswick iv. 27 Most vehicles were family camper-vans. 1976Washington Post 19 Apr. c10/2 (Advt.), 1972 GMC pickup,..color blue,..air cond, camper shell. 1977Caravan World (Austral.) Jan. 45/1 Many more campervan owners than caravanners tend to travel off bitumen roads. |