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shelter tent
noun
- a small, two-person, military tent consisting of two halves shelter halves buttoned or tied together, held up by accessory ropes and poles.
shelter tent
noun
- a military tent for two men
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Origin of shelter tent1
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Example Sentences
Nearly a year and a half ago, a prominent foundation provided a homeless shelter tent worth $800,000 to the city of Chula Vista.
Chula Vista will return a homeless shelter tent that a prominent nonprofit foundation last year agreed to allow the city to use free of charge.
You will take one wall tent for the officers, Captain, and the men will each carry their half of a shelter tent.
This can be done in ten minutes, and makes a shelter-tent that will turn a heavy rain for hours.
If a few brass eyes are run along the edges, and in the corners, then it can be stretched for a shelter-tent, too.
The tents d'abri, or shelter-tent, carried by the soldier himself, is all-sufficient.
The first sergeant places himself on the right of the right guide and with him pitches a single shelter tent.
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