Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tent protected from rain or heat by an additional covering of canvas stretched from the ridge-pole and forming a separate roof. See
fly , n., 5.
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Examples
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He did not wait for any reply, but walked to the little fly-tent, and three or four minutes later emerged, puffing a pipe.
A Mating in the Wilds Ottwell Binns
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It is recalled that when Major R.P. Todd returned to our command an officer, eager to hear from his home in South Carolina, entered a little fly-tent with Todd, and presently one of these sharpshooters put a ball through this tent, between the heads of the two.
History of Kershaw's Brigade D. Augustus Dickert
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In a large fly-tent, near the roadside, lay dying the Northern millionaire, General Wadsworth.
History of Kershaw's Brigade D. Augustus Dickert
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The more ambitious builders made straw pens, several logs high, and pitched over these a fly-tent, adding sometimes a chimney.
Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 Carlton McCarthy 1872
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