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field tent

field tent noun: a canvas tent used by the military.

Noun

field tent (plural field tents)

  1. A canvas tent used by the military.
    • The peg-bag (containing for field tent, twenty pegs, two mallets, and one driver; for guard tent, ten pegs, 'One mallet, and one driver) is placed on one side of the tent covering. The wooden head is packed within the folds of the canvas; the storm and ground ropes for the field tent are laid on...1858, Godfrey Rhodes, Tents and Tent-Life, from the earliest ages to the present time, page 192
    • An ordinary “ single-poled circular conical tent," without any side walls, but occupying the same space of ground, and of the same height and width as my field tent, contains about 354 cubic feet of air, thus allowing about 44 1/2 cubic feet for each man, 8 min in the tent; and about 29 1/2 cubic...1860, Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard

Examples of field tent in a sentence

  • The peg-bag (containing for field tent, twenty pegs, two mallets, and one driver; for guard tent, ten pegs, 'One mallet, and one driver) is placed on one side of the tent covering.1858, Godfrey Rhodes, Tents and Tent-Life, from the earliest ages to the present time, page 192:
  • The two-man field tent, commonly known as a pup-tent, was standard issue, and in boot camp a great deal of effort had been spent in teaching us to erect the pup-tent correctly.1983, William Daniel Ehrhart, Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir, →ISBN, page 194:
  • I counted what looked like a Mess Hall, a single barracks and another under construction, and a field tent.2011, Raymond George Ross, Heroes of Vietnam, →ISBN, page 22:

Forms of field tent

pluralfield tents

Questions about field tent

What does field tent mean?
Field tent means a canvas tent used by the military.
How do you use field tent in a sentence?
The peg-bag (containing for field tent, twenty pegs, two mallets, and one driver; for guard tent, ten pegs, 'One mallet, and one driver) is placed on one side of the tent covering.
What part of speech is field tent?
Field tent is a noun.
What is the plural of field tent?
The plural of field tent is field tents.

Words near field tent in the dictionary

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