Hypertext Webster Gateway: "encamping"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Encamp \En*camp"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Encamped} (?; 215); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Encamping}.]
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 Chron. xi.
15.
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