tent
101tent show — an exhibition or performance, esp. a circus, presented in a tent. * * * tent show, a show performed in a tent, usually in rural areas where no theater is available: »Although it is described as a musical comedy it is really an old fashioned tent… …
102tent caterpillars — Lackey Lack ey, n.; pl. {Lackeys}. [F. laquais; cf. Sp. & Pg. lacayo; of uncertain origin; perh. of German origin, and akin to E. lick, v.] An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower. [1913 Webster] Like a Christian footboy or a… …
103Tent-making Bat — Taxobox | name = Tent making Bat status = LR/lc | status system = IUCN2.3 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Chiroptera familia = Phyllostomidae genus = Uroderma species = U. bilobatum binomial = Uroderma bilobatum… …
104tent peg — noun A peg, driven into the ground, to hold a rope that supports a tent. Upon arrival at the campsite, they discovered that they had forgotten the tent pegs and had to use rocks and logs to tether the tent instead. Syn: spike, stake …
105tent peg — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms tent peg : singular tent peg plural tent pegs See: peg I, 2), b) …
106Tent Embassy — /tɛnt ˈɛmbəsi/ (say tent embuhsee) noun a semi permanent assemblage of tents, signs, and activists situated on the lawn of Old Parliament House, Canberra, claiming to represent the political rights of Aboriginal people; originated in 1972 with… …
107tent pole — /ˈtɛnt poʊl/ (say tent pohl) noun 1. a pole, one of a set, used in erecting a tent. 2. the principal support for a tent …
108tent-fly — /ˈtɛnt flaɪ/ (say tent fluy) noun piece of fabric placed above a tent and extending beyond each side, designed to protect the tent from heat or bad weather …
109tent-pegging — /ˈtɛnt pɛgɪŋ/ (say tent peging) noun a sport, deriving from cavalry training in India, in which a team of horses and riders armed with lances ride in single file, each one removing with a lance a tent peg stuck in the ground. –tent pegger, noun …
110tent flap — noun flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent • Syn: ↑tent fly, ↑rainfly, ↑fly sheet, ↑fly • Hypernyms: ↑flap • Part Holonyms: ↑fly tent …
