Looking for the meaning or definition of the word tent? Here's what it means.
Noun
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.
(archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
(Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
(medicine) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
(medicine) A probe for searching a wound.
Verb
(medicine) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
Noun
(archaic) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.