Encamp /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Encamped; p. pr. & vb. n. Encamping

1. 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.

   The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

1. To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters.

   Bid him encamp his soldiers.