单词 | to be bivouacked |
释义 | > as lemmasto be bivouacked 1. Military. Of troops: To remain, esp. during the night, in the open air, without tents or covering. Also to be bivouacked: to be so posted or disposed. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > take up quarters [verb (intransitive)] > encamp > without tents bivouac1809 1809 J. Moore To Ld. Castlereagh 13 Jan. In two forced marches, bivouacing for six or eight hours in the rain, I reached Betanzos on the 10th instant. 1815 J. W. Croker in L. J. Jennings Croker Papers (1884) I. iii. 61 The Carrousel, where about 2000 Prussians are bivouacked. 1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xxii. 180 As if the British army were bivouacked on the Hog's Back. < as lemmas |
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