tented

Verb (1)

tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)

1. (intransitive) To go camping.
   • We’ll be tenting at the campground this weekend.
2. To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
3. (intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.
   • The sheet tented over his midsection.
4. Synonym of fumigate.

   Synonyms:

   fumigate

Verb (2)

tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)

1. (Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal) To attend to; to heed.
   • 14th century, anonymous, The Romance of Syr Tryamoure
     He let hur have wemen at wylle,
     To tent hur, and that was skylle,
     And brought hur to bede
2. (Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal) To guard; to hinder.
   • The poor lass was sitting bemoaning herself - "Were it nae for thy girning face, I would knock the big, winnow the corn, and grun the meal," - "Lowse the cradle-band," said the child, "and tent the neighbours, and I'll work yere work."1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 167

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