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Tenting   /tˈɛntɪŋ/   Listen
Tenting

noun
1.
The act of encamping and living in tents in a camp.  Synonyms: bivouacking, camping, encampment.






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"Tenting" Quotes from Famous Books



... no marvel, if thy fingers foil'd Do leave the knot untied: so hard 't is grown For want of tenting." Thus she said: "But take," She added, "if thou wish thy cure, my words, And entertain them subtly. Every orb Corporeal, doth proportion its extent Unto the virtue through its parts diffus'd. The greater blessedness preserves the ...
— The Divine Comedy, Complete - The Vision of Paradise, Purgatory and Hell • Dante Alighieri

... supposed that every spot in the woods is suitable for a camp, or that a good tenting-ground can be chosen without knowledge and forethought. One of the requisites, indeed, is to be found everywhere in the St. John region; for all the lakes and rivers are full of clear, cool water, and the traveller does not need to search for a spring. But it is always necessary ...
— Little Rivers - A Book Of Essays In Profitable Idleness • Henry van Dyke

... of a craigy bield, Where crystal springs the halesome waters yield, Twa youthfu' shepherds on the gowans lay, Tenting their flocks ae bonny morn of May. Poor Roger granes, till hollow echoes ring; But blither Patie ...
— English Poets of the Eighteenth Century • Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Ernest Bernbaum



Words linked to "Tenting" :   habitation, inhabitation, tent, inhabitancy



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