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bell tent

noun

  1. a cone-shaped tent having a single central supporting pole
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

He had to sleep in a bell tent with seven others, radiating like spokes of a wheel from the centre tent pole.

As she did so Bindle proceeded to explain and expound the salient characteristics of the army bell-tent.

For the next hour the Bindles and their assistant scout were engaged in getting the bell-tent into habitable condition.

Behind a large acetylene motor-lamp, walked Patrol-leader Smithers, searching for one single erect bell-tent—there was none.

The lieutenant had also a very small bell-tent, the canvas of which formed scarcely half a load for a man.

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