tentmaker

[ tent-mey-ker ]

/ ˈtɛntˌmeɪ kər /

noun

a person who makes tents.

Origin of tentmaker

First recorded in 1555–65; tent¹ + maker

Words nearby tentmaker

Tenth Amendment, Tenth Commandment, tenth cranial nerve, tenthly, tentie, tentmaker, tent meeting, tentorial, tentorial sinus, tentorium, tentorium cerebelli

Example sentences from the Web for tentmaker

And then he was a tentmaker who understood Greek and who could speak to the Greeks in their own language.
Confessions of a Book-Lover|Maurice Francis Egan
How untrue, after all, was the nebulous philosophy of Omar, the Tentmaker.
The Wings of the Morning|Louis Tracy
Then he went to Corinth, where he stayed for some time preaching and working at his trade of tentmaker.
The Bible Story|Rev. Newton Marshall Hall
He persecutes the Christians with great vigor, a sport which he combines with the business of a tentmaker.
Preface to Androcles and the Lion|George Bernard Shaw

单词	tentmaker
释义	tentmaker [ tent-mey-ker ] / ˈtɛntˌmeɪ kər / noun a person who makes tents. Origin of tentmaker First recorded in 1555–65; tent¹ + maker Words nearby tentmaker Tenth Amendment, Tenth Commandment, tenth cranial nerve, tenthly, tentie, tentmaker, tent meeting, tentorial, tentorial sinus, tentorium, tentorium cerebelli Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for tentmaker And then he was a tentmaker who understood Greek and who could speak to the Greeks in their own language. Confessions of a Book-Lover\|Maurice Francis Egan How untrue, after all, was the nebulous philosophy of Omar, the Tentmaker. The Wings of the Morning\|Louis Tracy Then he went to Corinth, where he stayed for some time preaching and working at his trade of tentmaker. The Bible Story\|Rev. Newton Marshall Hall He persecutes the Christians with great vigor, a sport which he combines with the business of a tentmaker. Preface to Androcles and the Lion\|George Bernard Shaw
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