Camp

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - camp

According to the Old English Dictionary:

camp
a field (?) :-- Þis synt þá denbára . , . gelecan camp, C. D. ii. 216, 6. Wæst tó rocggan campæs geatæ, O. L. Ger. kamp an enclosure, field: O. Frs. kamp an enclosed piece of land. v. Jellinghaus s. v. kamp, a word in place names, which is almost exclusively Saxon and Frisian 'Der kamp ist ein eingefriedigter als Ackerland, Weide, Wiese oder Holzung dienender grösserer Landfleck.' See also Midd. Flur. s.v. camp. From Latin.] camp

Related words: 255, 32. Tó wígan campe, 313, 10: vi. 67, 9. On todan camp; of todan campe, iii. 425, 27. [

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