raise camp

Fur Trade, Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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pack up, leave a camp, and go elsewhere.

Quotations

1824

. . . the Kootonnies & Flat Heads are likewise here waiting our arrival intending to raise Camp together. . . .

1855

The next morning on raising camp, I ordered Martin's horses to be loaded and we set off. . . .