Encamp

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: en=camp

CIDE DICTIONARY

Encamp, v. i. 

 To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling.  [1913 Webster]
"The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim."  [1913 Webster]

Encamp, v. t. 

 To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters.  [1913 Webster]
"Bid him encamp his soldiers."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Encamp, v.tr. & intr.
1 settle in a military camp.
2 lodge in the open in tents.

ROGET THESAURUS

Encamp

Location

VB place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install, house, stow, establish, fix, pin, root, graft, plant, shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit, cradle, moor, tether, picket, pack, tuck in, embed, imbed, vest, invest in, billet on, quarter upon, saddle with, load, lade, freight, pocket, put up, bag, inhabit, domesticate, colonize, take root, strike root, anchor, cast anchor, come to an anchor, sit down, settle down, settle, take up one's abode, take up one's quarters, plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself, squat, perch, hive, se nicher, bivouac, burrow, get a footing, encamp, pitch one's tent, put up at, put up one's horses at, keep house, endenizen, naturalize, adopt, put back, replace.