make camp

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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set up shelters, make fire, etc. when stopping for a time on the trail.

Quotations

1849

We forded the river . . . and began "making camp," so as to save the carriers as much as possible when they came up.

1912

What's the best camp to make to-night?