dinner camp

dinner camp noun: a midday break for a meal and rest taken by drovers and their livestock.

Noun

dinner camp (plural dinner camps)

(Australia) A midday break for a meal and rest taken by drovers and their livestock.
- Looking at that brownie cake reminded me of a most unusual happening when we had come back to the mill for dinner camp in the middle of the day.2010, Brian Taylor, A Swag of Memories: Australian bush stories
- I remember one day on dinner camp, we was all relaxing as the horses fed around us, when all of a sudden the station horses took off.2011, Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp: Murrie Drovers and Their Stories, page 6
(Australia) The location of the temporary camp created for dinner camp.
- Even if they had a camp where they meet, and their trapline is divided like this, but if they have a dinner camp here, that's supposed to be in their boundary.2001, Michael D. Blackstock, Faces in the Forest: First Nations Art Created on Living Trees, page 117
- In the new space the narrator draws four new elements representing the shade camp or 'dinner camp' where some of the women and children are waiting.2014, Jennifer Green, Drawn from the Ground, page 186

Dinner camp was generally a casual affair.2012, Bobbie Buchanan, In the Tracks of Old Bluey: The Life Story of Nat Buchanan, page 58:
Eventually they arrive, and set up dinner camp under a tree in the dry creekbed, close to a soakage where, with only a little effort, fresh water can be obtained from under the sand.2013, Elspeth Young, Third World in the First: Development and Indigenous Peoples:
He found her name on this last leg between dinner camp and the station yards.2018, Steve Hawke, Valley:
Not more than two miles below our dinner camp we reached a locality where the stream doubled back on itself forming a vast and beautiful amphitheatre.2020, F. S. Dellenbaugh, A Canyon Voyage, page 79:

plural	dinner camps

What does dinner camp mean?: Dinner camp means a midday break for a meal and rest taken by drovers and their livestock.
How do you use dinner camp in a sentence?: Dinner camp was generally a casual affair.
What part of speech is dinner camp?: Dinner camp is a noun.
What is the plural of dinner camp?: The plural of dinner camp is dinner camps.

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