Definition of "camp-fire" [camp-fire]

• A fire in a camp for warmth or cooking: as, a soldier's or a hunter's camp-fire. It is commonly built in the open air and on the ground. (noun)
• Among the members of the society called the Grand Army of the Republic, a meeting or reunion of the members of a post. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "To the three R's his mother taught him by camp-fire and candle-light, he had added a somewhat miscellaneous book-knowledge; but he was not burdened with what he had gathered."
• "Holmes to deduce that you have been cooking over a camp-fire, to say nothing of trying out seal-blubber."
• "Somebody called the name of an absent member, who came out of an ancient cabin at the edge of the camp-fire and joined them."