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Tenting   /tˈɛntɪŋ/   Listen
Tenting

noun
1.
The act of encamping and living in tents in a camp.  Synonyms: bivouacking, camping, encampment.



Tent

verb
(past & past part. tented; pres. part. tenting)
1.
Live in or as if in a tent.  Synonyms: bivouac, camp, camp out, encamp.  "The circus tented near the town" , "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"



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"Tenting" Quotes from Famous Books



... manger and two beasts standing by: The service whilk to Newyear's-day is assaign'd Bay the paicture of the circumcision ay faynd: The service, whilk on Twalfth-day mun be done, Ay seeke bay the mark of the three kings of Cologne. Bay the devil tenting Chraist ay find whadragesima: Bay Chraist on the cross ay serch out gude-fraiday. Pasch for his mark hath the Resurrection: Ayenst Hally-Thursday is pented Chraist's ascension: Thus in mayn own buke ay is a gude clerk; But gif the sents ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VI • Robert Dodsley

... trail by which we had come; men everywhere were stuffing their empty sacks with green vegetables and household plunder; the town fairly whistled with flame, and the smoke rose in a great cloud-shape very high, and hung above us, tenting us from the sun. ...
— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers



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