A portable shelter made of fabric or other material stretched over a supporting framework of poles and usually stabilized or secured to the ground with cords and stakes, An apparatus used in field-photography as a substitute for the dark room, A probe for searching a wound, verb_ medicine To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively, archaic To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder, transitive verb_ To keep (a wound or orifice) open with such a plug, To attend; wait on, To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent. Used also figuratively, intransitive verb_ To camp in a tent, To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle, To go camping