| 单词 | dinner camp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdinner camp dinner camp n. (chiefly in stock driving) a place to make camp for food and rest late morning or midday during an overland journey of several days or weeks; (also in later use Australian) the break itself, typically taken late morning or midday.In quot. 1859, with reference to a British expedition to explore an uncharted region of the far west of North America in 1859. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal enclosure or house general > [noun] > resting place for animals lairc1420 bed1694 dinner camp1859 bed-ground1880 bedding-ground1884 camp1891 the world > food and drink > food > meal > meal-time > [noun] > lunch-time midday mealtimec1400 luncheon-time1823 lunchtime1859 dinner camp1925 1859 J. W. Sullivan Let. Oct. in Explor. N. Amer.: Further Papers Exped. Capt. Palliser (1860) 15 in Parl. Papers XLIV. 427 At our night camp..we were at least 10 miles still further to the northward, for we made a very long journey from our dinner camp. 1867 in Proc. Parl. S. Austral. 1868–9 (1869) II. No. 24. 11 Sent the stockmen..back with Tommy to yesterday dinner camp, to look for a double-barrelled pistol that Tommy lost. 1925 M. Terry Across Unknown Austral. 81 At dinner camp that day (midday). 1947 W. E. Harney Brimming Billabongs 107 A place would be chosen as dinner camp, and to this spot the pack-horses would go, to be unpacked by the cook and horse tailer so that we could have dinner as soon as we arrived. 2013 ABC Transcripts (Austral.) (Nexis) 21 Feb. [A] short time ago I was up on a cattle station in the Kimberleys sitting under a tree at dinner camp with the rest of the ringers. < as lemmas |
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