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Tenting   /tˈɛntɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Tent  v. t.  To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)



Tent  v. t.  To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively. "I'll tent him to the quick."



Tent  v. i.  (past & past part. tented; pres. part. tenting)  To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle. "We 're tenting to-night on the old camp ground."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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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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