society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > take up quarters [verb (intransitive)] > encamp (9)
intransitive. To live or remain in a camp; to form or pitch one's camp; to encamp.
intransitive for reflexive.
reflexive and intransitive. To set one's leaguer, to encamp. Obsolete.
transitive. To form (wagons) into a laager; to encamp (persons) in a laager; also with up and figurative. Also absol. or intransitive.
Of tanks, military forces, etc.: to shelter; to halt for the night. Cf. senses 7 9.