tent

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tent
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Meanings
noun
  • a portable shelter made of cloth, supported by one or more poles and stretched tight by cords or loops attached to pegs driven into the ground.
verb
  • cover with or as if with a tent.
    E.g. the garden had been completely tented over for supper
  • live or stay for a while in a tent.
    E.g. we tented with the kids on the shores of Lake Huron
noun
  • a deep red sweet wine chiefly from Spain, used especially as sacramental wine.
noun
  • a piece of absorbent material inserted into an opening to keep it open, or especially to widen it gradually as the material absorbs moisture.

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