tenting

Pluraltentings

1. 1
   nouncountable or uncountable

   Strong, heavy fabric of the kind used to make tents.

   Like the heavy canvas a sailmaker stitches into a sail.

   The supplier shipped bolts of canvas tenting to outfitters across the region.

   Repairing the marquee took several yards of treated tenting and a heavy needle.

   Similarcanvas

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of tent.

   The scouts are tenting in the valley until Sunday.

   Tenting through the rainy season tested their patience.

   Note

   The -ing form carries every use of the verb, not only camping. A cook tenting a roast props foil over it in a loose inverted V. Tenting can also mean fumigating, or simply forming a tent-like shape. As a gerund it names the activity itself (tenting is prohibited above the tree line). The past forms are tented. In archaic Scottish dialect, tent meant to heed or to guard.

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