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ˈtent-ˌmaker
1. One who makes tents.
1565T. Stapleton Fortr. Faith 107 b, He that weareth the crowne on his head, besecheth the teintmaker [St. Paul], and the fisher both dead to be his protectours. 1582N.T. (Rhem.) Acts xviii. 3 They were tentmakers by their craft [Tindale, Their crafte was to make tentes; 1388 Wyclif, of roop-makeris crafte]. 1884J. Hall Chr. Home 87 Paul was a tent-maker, and he was not ashamed of it.
2. (See quot., and cf. tent n.1 2 c.)
1863L. L. Clarke in Intell. Observer IV. 1 Micro⁓lepidoptera. (Coleophora, or Tent-makers.)
So ˈtent-ˌmaking, the business of making tents.
1641‘Smectymnuus’ Vind. Answ. xii. 113 We pardon his..comparison betweene S. Pauls Tent-making..& the State imployment of our Bishops. |