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hunting camp

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1770, OED Evaluation: N/A

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ExampleMeaning
But the Indians want their own. And now the other kids as I tell you work- Sam works at a hunting camp just out of Sault-Lookout, Mandy lives a-- or she works at the big- there's a big store it's all ah groceries, she works there. And now Rebecca is the youngest and she works f-- where A-- Andy used to work at the ah drug store ...
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
ExampleMeaning
I have a really good hunting story. ... Well um, my dad let me go to- to his hunting camp to hunt deer. So I was with him and we're up on a hill and we look down, and we see a deer. So he gets ready, he shoots, he shoots.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
Near um New-Year's-Eve um, we've been to this hunting camp for two years and um the first year it was in- it was twenty-ten, it was t-- it was coming to twenty-eleven. And that was a fun a party we stayed up all night and then-
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
ExampleMeaning
... well both George and Sandy and my mom and dad were good friends and, um, I used to spend, ah- so we started out like a lot of young kids ah- you-- I'd go up to hunting camp every year and- and ah- you-know- started out feeding the dogs and then maybe the next year if you didn't act the bear you'd- they'd let you maybe walk with the- with the guy that was running the dogs ...
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
ExampleMeaning
So we had bears but I don't remember deer. They're- they used to go by horse and sleigh to the hunting camp, wherever the hunting camp was. And I was too young to be interested.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
ExampleMeaning
And then the people that came to the deer camps bought cottage lots and built cottages. It was one of the real- go back to my- go back to my- I'm thinking. Something we did ourselves to attract people. And ah- like the lake. Haliburton-Lake used to have five hunting camps on it. Now it can't support one.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
ExampleMeaning
So our guys hunt on their property and they have- actually have a- a hunting camp down on a piece of Garrett's land that th-- well I don't know how you work that out now i--
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
ExampleMeaning
And ah, a friend of mine has a hunting camp that we've hunted together for some forty-five ah maybe pretty close fifty years now I guess.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Everything stops, comes to a stop during deer and moose hunting. Nobody works, nobody- Interviewer: Really? Speaker: Oh no, everything's shut down, totally. Interviewer: So everyone can go deer hunting. Speaker: Yup and-and we have- we have a hunting camp ah in the bush, you-know, we go out there, I guess we can probably sleep abut twenty-five people out there. We do our own cooking and ah it's pretty well organized.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
Interviewer: What's a- what's a hunting camp? I've never heard of that? Speaker: It's a hunting camp, it's a place for guys go to, to stay in the bush, in the hunting area, so that you're right where the deer and- and moose are, and it's like a home, cottage, whatever you want to call it. But a camp that, you-know, everybody- there's ten of us, in a group, and we each contribute so much money a year for upkeep and maintenance and building and the whole bit. Yeah, and it's there ah, anybody can go out and use it whenever they want. If I want to get out of Dodge, I go out to the ah hunt camp and I can be there all by myself alone and- and build a little fire and a wood stove, and feel comfy and cozy. ... It's fun.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
ExampleMeaning
It was, it was so nice to be um, in the country. I- I would- I recall my grandpa, he owns property in Craigmont, which isn't far from Combermere. Um, he has a hunting camp on that property, and, like every weekend, he would come pick me and my sister up, my sister's two years younger than me. And ah, we'd spend the whole day with him.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage