tent : Idioms & Phrases

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backpacking tent

  • noun a tent that can be carried in a backpack
    backpacking tent.
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Bell tent

  • noun a bell-shaped tent
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  • a circular conical-topped tent.
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canvas tent

  • noun a tent made of canvas fabric
    canvass; canvas.
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circus tent

  • noun a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance
    big top; top; round top.
    • he was afraid of a fire in the circus tent
    • they had the big top up in less than an hour
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cottage tent

  • noun a tent providing shelter for a family
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field tent

  • noun a canvas tent for use in the field
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fly tent

  • noun a tent with a fly front
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forest tent caterpillar

  • noun larvae of a gregarious North American moth that spins a web resembling a carpet rather than a tent; serious defoliator of deciduous trees
    Malacosoma disstria.
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lean-to tent

  • noun tent that is attached to the side of a building
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mountain tent

  • noun a lightweight tent with a floor; flaps close with a zipper
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pack tent

  • noun a tent that can be carried in a backpack
    backpacking tent.
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pop tent

  • noun a small tent that is easy to carry and quick to set up
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pup tent

  • noun a wedge-shaped tent; usually without a floor or windows
    pup tent.
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pyramidal tent

  • noun a large tent shaped like a pyramid; can hold half a dozen people
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sealskin tent

  • noun tent that is an Eskimo summer dwelling
    tupek; tupik.
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Shelter tent

  • noun a wedge-shaped tent; usually without a floor or windows
    pup tent.
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  • a small tent made of pieces of cotton duck arranged to button together. In field service the soldiers carry the pieces.
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sibley tent

  • noun a light conical canvas tent erected on a tripod with ventilation at the top
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Tent bed

  • a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy.
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Tent caterpillar

  • noun the larvae of moths that build and live in communal silken webs in orchard and shade trees
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  • (Zoöl.), any one of several species of gregarious caterpillars which construct on trees large silken webs into which they retreat when at rest. Some of the species are very destructive to fruit trees. The most common American species is the larva of a bombycid moth (Clisiocampa Americana). Called also lackery caterpillar, and webworm.
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tent flap

  • noun flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
    fly; rainfly; tent flap; fly sheet.
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tent peg

  • noun a peg driven into the ground to hold a rope supporting a tent
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tent stitch

  • noun a small diagonal needlepoint stitch
    petit point.
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tent-caterpillar moth

  • noun moth whose gregarious larvae spin webs resembling carpets
    Malacosoma disstria.
  • noun moth whose larvae are tent caterpillars
    Malacosoma americana.
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tent-fly

  • noun flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
    fly; rainfly; tent flap; fly sheet.
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two-man tent

  • noun a tent designed for occupancy by two persons
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umbrella tent

  • noun a small tent with a single supporting pole and radiating metal ribs
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Wall tent

  • noun a canvas tent with four vertical walls
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  • a tent with upright cloth sides corresponding to the walls of a house.
Webster 1913