En·camp v. i. [imp. & p. p. Encamped 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.