DCHP-1

tent

1 n. Hist. See 1932 quote.
See also: lodge (def. 2b) wigwam ((n.)) (def. 2)
- 1689 (1929) Rain'd very hard so came to & made a tent of moss. . . .
- 1783 (1934) Made a Platform and Erected another [log] Tent which we covered over with feather Edge boards then stowed the Furs in the inside of all & came away with Heavy Hearts.
- 1800 (1897) To Indians came . . . to ask me to send a large canoe for what they had collected at their tents.
- 1932 . . . "tent" in the parlance of Hudson's Bay journals was applied to a small hut or shanty of any construction. . . .
2 n. Hist. a family group or household of Indians or, less often, Eskimos.
See also: lodge (def. 3)
- 1690 (1929) Some of the home Indians came upon their track And for old grudges & their minds to fill Came up with them Six tents of w^ch, they kill'd.
- 1795 (1911) The three men who had been sent as spies met us on their return, and informed my companions that five tents of Esquimaux were on the west side of the river.
- 1862 Here they fell in with a large body of Assiniboines--60 tents of them--and had to manage with great skill and courage to escape being plundered or killed.
- 1963 . . . as there were on the track some thirty tents of Indians who were likely to give trouble, Grant volunteered to act as guide.