Meaning of dinner camp | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A midday break for a meal and rest taken by drovers and their livestock.
   Australia
2. The location of the temporary camp created for dinner camp.
   Australia

Examples

“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.”

“Eventually they arrive, and set up dinner camp under a tree in the dry creekbed, close to a soakage where, with only a little effort, fresh water can be obtained from under the sand.”

“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.”

“Not more than two miles below our dinner camp we reached a locality where the stream doubled back on itself forming a vast and beautiful amphitheatre.”

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