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Definition of Tentful
1. n. As much, or as many, as a tent will hold.
Definition of Tentful
1. Noun. As much as a tent will hold. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tentful
1. as much as a tent can hold [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tentful
Literary usage of Tentful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outcome of the Civil War, 1863-1865 by James Kendall Hosmer (1907)
"A tentful of privates with their candles alight after taps would hear the flat
of the general's sword on the canvas in token of displeasure, an exhibition ..."
2. The Story of the Salonica Army by George Ward Price (1918)
"The buzz of ineffectively struggling wings that comes from a well-covered fly-paper
has a savagely soothing effect upon one's temper, and to see a tentful ..."
3. The American Civil War by James Kendall Hosmer (1913)
"A tentful of privates with their candles alight after taps would hear the flat
of the general's sword on the canvas in token of displeasure, an exhibition ..."
4. With the Mission to Menelik, 1897 by Edward Gleichen (1898)
"... the tentful was fined fifty dollars be- :en them, and had to pay up; but they
were ained for two days on the charge. His mules refore had to be driven, ..."
5. The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow by Isaac Barrow, William Whewell (1859)
"... particularly discon- tentful murmurings, disobedience to magistrates, schisms
and factions in the Church, combustions and seditions in the State. ..."
6. The Doukhobors: Their History in Russia, Their Migration to Canada by Joseph Elkinton (1903)
"She found herself confronted by a tentful of boys and girls, with none of whom
did she have a single known word in common. ' By signs and motions,' she says ..."
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