striking camp

Recently it put up temporary fencing around parts of the library to prevent people from striking camp there.

Mr. Halliday was so anxious to accomplish the aim of his journey that he pushed on resolutely each day, striking camp at earliest dawn, marching with intervals until ten, resting until three or four, and then going on again until nightfall.

The word means �to fling a stone into a cup or pot,� which is the signal for �striking camp� among tribes of nomad Arabs.

Under the operation of a mysterious but merciful law of nature, it is her habit, having placed herself in an absolutely impregnable position, to abandon her defences without warning or explanation—not infrequently, at the moment when the dispirited lover at her gates is upon the point of striking camp and beating a melancholy retreat, marching out, bag and baggage, into the arms of her dazed and incredulous opponent.

You needn't say anything about striking camp.