a. [f. CAMP sb.2 + -LESS.] Without a camp or camp-accommodation.
1812. Miss Watkins, Poems, 79.
| Hence, this the time for me to render | |
| Thy word for word, thy feat for feat; | |
| And though thy campless years compete | |
| But ill with my more field-worn frame. |
1858. Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer, 6 May, 3/3. His [Washington’s] feeble army, who, campless, bootless, often foodless and coatless, were traceable by the blood marks left upon the frozen snow.
1863. Life in South, II. 26. Footsore soldiers, campless and blanketless, glad to gather the new corn as it stood in the fields.
1912. A. Moore, Orient Express, 83–4. I resigned myself to a campless night of waiting at Soh.
