champ

verb

No English definition recorded for this entry.

Etymology: Clipping of Champlain (“Lake Champlain”).

A large aquatic creature, similar to the Loch Ness monster, which supposedly lives in Lake Champlain, located on the shared borders of the American states of Vermont and New York and the Canadian province of Quebec.

Etymology: Borrowed from French champ m (“field”). Doublet of campus and camp.

The field or ground on which carving appears in relief.
The field of a shield.
“If a man, he adds, have taken for his arms 'a low of gules in a champ of silver,'¹ […] ¹A flame (pile wavy) gules in a silver field. Thus the arms of the family of Bataille de Mandelot are, Argent three flames, per piles wavy gules, issuant from the base. Woodward, Heraldry, i. 158. Otherwise one might almost suppose that the word 'low' of the MS. was a misprint or a misunderstanding of the scribe for 'cow'; for the instance in one MS. of the original French is that of a man who took 'une vache de geules et trois estoiles par dessus.'”

Etymology: Blend of church + camp or back-formation from champing.