tent

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. The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
3. A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
4. A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.

1. To go camping.

   We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.

2. To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
3. To form into a tent-like shape.

   The sheet tented over his midsection.

1. Attention; regard, care.
2. Intention; design.

1. To attend to; to heed
2. To guard; to hinder.

1. 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.
2. A probe for searching a wound.

1. (sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.

   to tent a wound

noun

A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.