bivouac
bivouac
Definition
biv·ouac (biv′wak′, -o̵̅o̅ ak′)
noun
- Archaic a night guard to avoid surprise attack
- a temporary encampment (esp. of soldiers) in the open, with only tents or improvised shelter
Etymology: Fr < Ger dial. (Swiss) biwacht, night guard < OHG bi-, by, with + wahta, watchman < wahhen, watch, wake
intransitive verb -·acked′, -·ack′·ing
to encamp in the open
bivouac
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- build: Before doing so, it is worth reflecting on why I would not build the traditional bivouac.
- make: We made some bivouacs ( natural shelters ) for our Advanced Scout Standard Award in the woods.
- force: After a forced bivouac on the ridge, they descended the next day before returning to Gangotri the day after.
Preposition: on
- ridge: You will require two good days of fine weather to attempt the traverse including one overnight bivouac on the ridge.
Adjective modifier
- overnight: You will require two good days of fine weather to attempt the traverse including one overnight bivouac on the ridge.
Modifies a noun
- shelter: We hope they will be found safely holed up in one of the bivouac shelters on the ridge.
- area: The Army then moved four miles inland to a bivouac area where, first of all, everyone had to marry up again.
- hut: Some have standard facilities, including taps, toilets, bivouac huts and firewood; others are more basic.
- bag: We offer the use of hammocks, flysheets, sleeping mats and bivouac bags if you don't want to bring a tent.
- tent: That night we slept on the beach in a bivouac tent.
- gear: Carry emergency bivouac gear including flashlight and/or candles, and a means for attracting attention such as a whistle and/or flares.
Noun used with modifier
bivouac Quotes
I could have transformed this greyassembly hall into an armed camp of Blackshirts, a bivouac for corpses. I could have nailed up the doors of Parliament.
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