[f. TENT v.6 + -ING1.]
1. vbl. sb.1 Lodging in or as in tents; encamping; sojourning. Chiefly attrib.
1858. Macduff, Bow in Cloud (1870), 32. Tenting-time here—resting time yonder.
1870. Standard, 14 Dec. They were in excellent marching trim, carryed neither knapsack nor tenting equipage.
1873. Tristram, Moab, xiii. 234. A little plain…, a lovely tenting spot.
1883. ‘Annie Thomas,’ Mod. Housewife, 81. That a house in the country, a short distance from London, was a more expensive form of tenting than an equally highly-rented one in the heart of the great metropolis.
2. sb. [f. TENT sb.1; cf. bedding, sacking.] Material for tents; in quot. attrib.
1887. Pall Mall G., 4 June, 8/2. The rain, instead of running off as it should have done on first-class tenting material, dripped through persistently, until the tents were perfectly uninhabitable.
Tenting, vbl. sb.2–5: see TENT v.1–4.
