camp
- noun [ masculineneuter ]
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Þis synt þá denbára . , . gelecan camp,
- C. D. ii. 216, 6.
- Wæst tó rocggan campæs geatæ, v. 255, 32.
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Tó wígan campe,
- 313, 10: vi. 67, 9.
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On todan camp; of todan campe, iii. 425, 27. [O. L. Ger. kamp an enclosure, field: O. Frs. kamp an enclosed piece of land. v. Jellinghaus
s. v.
kamp, a word in place names, which is almost exclusively Saxon and Frisian 'Der kamp ist ein eingefriedigter als- Ackerland, Weide, Wiese oder Holzung dienender grösserer Landfleck.' See also Midd. Flur. s.v. camp. From Latin.
Bosworth, Joseph. “camp.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/41336.
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