Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the form of a tent.
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- adverb In the manner of a
tent ; consisting ofdraped material with a gap serving asentrance .
Etymologies
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tent + -wise
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Examples
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For a while he stood there looking down on me in the dusk; then walked off through the sty to the hut and returned with two hurdles which he rested over me, one against another, tentwise, driving their stakes an inch or two into the soil.
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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And in the middle of the floor sprawled the vast oaken bed, with its heavy green brocade curtains falling tentwise from a great tarnished gilt crown in the ceiling.
The Rough Road William John Locke 1896
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