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Tent

,—a canvas awning extending upon poles, under which, upon the cold and damp earth, a wisp of straw is thinly strewed, to make a bed for five creatures of a human appearance, whose bodies are stretched upon this downey couch, forming radii of a circle, with their feet wedged together in the middle like the spokes of a wheel. Here they all join in the glee, “How merrily we live that sol­diers be.”!!

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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.

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Tent