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Tenting   /tˈɛntɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Tent  v. t.  To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)



Tent  v. t.  To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively. "I'll tent him to the quick."



Tent  v. i.  (past & past part. tented; pres. part. tenting)  To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle. "We 're tenting to-night on the old camp ground."






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... the McClintock-Crozier record, together with the record of our work to date, ten feet north of the cairn, marking the fact on the tombstone. On our way back to Franklin Point we buried the skull found on our way up, but found no further bones until we reached Point Le Vesconte. We saw tenting places, both of white men and natives, at different points along the coast, and one cairn that had been torn down and contained nothing. We found an empty grave on a hill where we encamped, about four miles below this point, and a skull about a quarter of a mile distant from it, evidently ...
— Schwatka's Search • William H. Gilder



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