Marquee. Weight complete, 1 cwt. 17 lbs. ridge pole 9 feet; standard 8 feet.
Round Tent. A circular tent which contains 12 men; the weight complete, with poles, 43 lbs. Length of pole 10 feet.
Hospital Tent. A large commodious tent, which is appropriated for the sick. It sometimes happens, that when a contagious disorder breaks out in a camp, or in barracks, the persons infected are removed from the hospital and lodged in a tent, which is pitched for that purpose in the neighborhood. It is usual for the commanding officer of the regiment to order one or more sentries to be furnished to the regimental hospital, and the same to the hospital tent, which sentries are directed to permit no person to enter but those concerned in the hospital, the staffs and officers of the regiment. They are to be particularly careful in preventing liquor, or any thing improper, from being carried into the hospital; nor are they to permit any patient to go out (to the necessary excepted) without a ticket of leave from the attending surgeon.
Laboratory Tent, in artillery, a large tent which is sometimes carried to the field for the convenience of fire-workers and bombardiers. The weight complete, with poles, pins, &c. 3 cwt. 24 lbs. length of ridge pole 18 feet, length of poles 14¹⁄₂ feet.
Tent bedstead. A small portable bedstead, so contrived as to correspond with the shape of an officer’s tent.
Tent-Pins, pieces of wood, which are indented at the top, and made sharp at the bottom, to keep the cords of a tent or marquee firm to the earth. There are four large ones which serve for the weather cords.
Tent-Poles. The poles upon which a tent or marquee is supported.
Tent walls. See [Wall].
Tent likewise means lint to put in a wound.
TENTED. Having tents pitched on it. Hence “the tented field.”