meaning of tent
1. A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.
2. Attention; regard, care.
3. Intention; design.
4. To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
5. To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.
6. A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
7. A probe for searching a wound.
8. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.
9. The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
10. To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.
11. a portable shelter usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs; "he pitched his tent near the
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