A small tent.

In South Asia: a small tent with steep sloping sides, used for storage, cooking, or accommodation.

A tent large enough to hold many people (now usually one used for social or commercial functions). Formerly also: †an officer's field tent (obsolete)…

A tent, or poor dwelling-place, in Northern Africa.

= marquee, n. 1. Also (occasionally) Military: the inner layer or lining of a marquee. Obsolete (historical in later use).

A semi-subterranean dwelling or hut, usually formed of timber covered with earth or turf, of the indigenous peoples of northern and central Asia…

a tent resembling a bell in shape.

A circular tent made of lattice work and covered with thick felt, used by the Tartars; transferred a Tartar household or family.

‘A small tent with steep sloping roof, two poles and a ridge-piece, and with very low side walls’ (Yule).

? a tent having a fly (sense 4b).

a chalet; hence, a type of tent.

North American. A house or tent made of animal hide covering a framework; esp. a tepee used by North American Indians; = skin lodge n. at skin, n.…

A large tent used to accommodate a public event or spectacle, esp. an (evangelistic) religious gathering or a circus; cf. big top n. at big, adj. adv.…

a tent having a long central pole supported by a pole or frame at either end.

a small tent used by soldiers (so-called from its resemblance to a dog's kennel); cf. pup tent n. at pup, n.1 compounds 2.

a small ridged tent; a dog-tent.

a tent with perpendicular sides.

= A tent, n.

a small tent or bivouac, a dog-tent; spec. a shelter tent comprising two shelter halves (see shelter half n. at shelter, n. compounds 2) carried…

A tent with sides sloping downwards from a ridge pole.

A hut or tent of skins used by Eskimo as a summer residence.

A miniature tent.

Among the nomadic peoples of Siberia, a conical hut or tent of fir poles covered with skins or birch bark.

In full pyramid tent. A tent shaped like a pyramid, typically with four triangular sides supported by a central pole.

a kind of tent with a roof shaped like the shell of a tortoise.

a tent for use on safari; (now usually) spec. a large, high tent with adequate space for the use of conventional furniture and a wide front aperture…

(see quot. 1940).

a kind of trailer consisting of a wheeled frame with a collapsible tent cover attached.

A tent or wigwam of the American Indians, formed of bark, mats, skins, or canvas stretched over a frame of poles converging to and fastened…

a tent which is attached to and erected on a trailer.

Used attributively of objects devised by Whillans for the assistance of climbers. a kind of frame tent (see quot. 1971).