单词 | to camp the bar |
释义 | > as lemmasto camp the bar a. To contend in athletic contests; also transitive, as in to camp the bar. Obsolete or dialect. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > contend in athletics [verb (intransitive)] camp1774 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > contend in athletics [verb (transitive)] camp1856 1774–6 J. Bryant New Syst. (T.) In our island, the exhibition of those manly sports in vogue among country people is called camping; and the enclosures for that purpose, where they wrestle and contend, are called camping closes. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. vi. viii. 262 Those three tall fellows..fonder of sword-play, wrestling, and camping the bar, than of churchmen or church-going. < as lemmas |
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