单词 | to pitch camp |
释义 | > as lemmasto pitch camp c. transitive. To establish (a camp, etc.), esp. in a specified place. Frequently in to pitch camp. ΚΠ 1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. 411 King Henrie..came to Hounslow hethe, and there pitched his campe. 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades iv. 71 His campe ypitched By Asope floud. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 981/1 There they pitched [1577 pight] downe their campe. 1611 B. Jonson Catiline iv. sig. I3v Their Campe's in Italy, Pitch'd in the iawes. View more context for this quotation 1679 J. Davies tr. Appian Hist. i. vii. 208 He brought the Army in safety, and pitch'd Camp before Ocylis. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 112 The Youth of Rome..pitch their sudden Camp before the Foe. View more context for this quotation 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxvi. 612 The camp of Valens, which he pitched under the walls of Hadrianople. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xiv. 305 ‘You may defeat the Romans in spite of Tacitus.’ ‘And pitch Agricola's camp at the Kaim.’ 1860 J. W. Warter Sea-board & Down II. 127 It was necessary to remove the camp from the place where it was pitched. 1901 Essex Weekly News 12 Apr. 3/6 Defendant..pitched a caravan on the grass. 1912 H. Belloc This & That 105 The army had marched ten miles, and there the second camp was pitched. 1995 Harper's Mag. Feb. 33 A research team from the National Marine Fisheries Service pitched camp in a stand of lodgepole pine. < as lemmas |
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