tent peg
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Also see: peg
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Also see: peg
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tent1
▶noun a portable shelter made of fabric, supported by one or more poles and stretched tight by cords attached to pegs driven into the ground. ▶verb
- 1 cover with or as if with a tent.
■ arrange in a tent-like shape.
■ (as adj. tented) composed of or provided with tents.
- 2 live in a tent.
– origin ME: from OFr. tente, based on L. tent-, tendere ‘to stretch’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tent2
▶noun a deep red sweet wine chiefly from Spain, used especially as sacramental wine.
– origin ME: from Sp. tinto ‘deep-coloured’, from L. tinctus ‘dyed, stained’, from tingere.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tent3
▶noun Surgery a piece of absorbent material inserted into an opening to keep it open or widen it gradually.
– origin ME (also denoting a probe): from OFr. tente, from tenter ‘to probe’, from L. temptare ‘handle, try’.

