shelter tent

noun
a small, two-person, military tent consisting of two halves (shelter halves) buttoned or tied together, held up by accessory ropes and poles.
Also called pup tent.


Origin:
1860–65, Americanism

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shelter tent
 
n
(US) a military tent for two men

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Shelter tent is always a great word to know.
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a fool or simpleton; ninny.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
Example sentences
The army lolls and longs for the shade, of which some get a hand's breadth, from a shelter tent stuck upon a ramrod.
We crawled under our little shelter tent to peruse a letter which each of us had received.
Your correspondent having a horse to carry him, returned to the camp, and had a blanket and a shelter tent over him.
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