dinner camp

Definitions

1. 1

   A midday break for a meal and rest taken by drovers and their livestock.

   • Looking at that brownie cake reminded me of a most unusual happening when we had come back to the mill for dinner camp in the middle of the day.
   • I remember one day on dinner camp, we was all relaxing as the horses fed around us, when all of a sudden the station horses took off.
   • Dinner camp was generally a casual affair.
2. 2

   The location of the temporary camp created for dinner camp.

   • Even if they had a camp where they meet, and their trapline is divided like this, but if they have a dinner camp here, that's supposed to be in their boundary.
   • In the new space the narrator draws four new elements representing the shade camp or 'dinner camp' where some of the women and children are waiting.
   • He found her name on this last leg between dinner camp and the station yards.

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