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n. - The act of encamping and living in portable shelters (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs) in a camp.

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  • And "tenting" - basically wrapping and fumigating your entire home - is the most common way to dispatch drywood termites.
  • The only method of termite control that we ever saw used was "tenting" and blowing in poison gas for a couple of days.
  • We've been tenting tonight on the old camp ground,
  • Comment from random RV camper guy: You're tenting it?
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