tents

Noun (1)

tent (plural tents)

1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
   • We were camping in a three-man tent.
2. (archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
3. (Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
   • A splendid tent was erected on the brae north of the town, and round that the countless congregation assembled.1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
4. A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
   • […] feeling his erection making a tent in his pants.2013, Nathan Lapointe, A Strange New World

Noun (2)

tent (plural tents)

1. (Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal) Attention; regard, care.
   • Lo ! lo ! my frend , take tent to this wommana. 1451, John Lydgate, The Prohemy of a Marriage betwixt and Olde Man and a Yonge Wife, and the Counsail &c.
2. (archaic) Intention; design.
   • A-pon þe feild his fader went
     And soght abel wit al his tenta. 1300, anonymous author, Cursor Mundi

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