Bivouac: Definition and part of speech

Bivouac

  1. n. An encampment for the night without tents or covering.
  2. n. The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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