| 单词 | bender tent |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbender tent British (originally in Gypsy usage). Also more fully bender tent. A shelter made by covering a framework of bent branches with canvas or tarpaulin. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > shelter > a shelter > of specific kind hover1602 cleit1825 bender1934 palapa1957 1934 Times 10 Jan. 7/5 They lived..in ‘benders’—willow branches bent over and covered with sacks. 1958 Man 58 89/1 The bender tent is familiar in Britain as the typical shelter of the Gypsies, particularly in the New Forest and in Surrey. 1993 R. Lowe & W. Shaw Travellers 220 We were all going to spend the winter together, so we thought we might as well build one big bender. 1997 R. Rendell Road Rage (1998) vi. 73 Jordan's men began pulling people out of the bender tents. 2001 A. Sayle Dog Catcher 306 I would go and live wild in a bender in the woods. < as lemmas |
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