field tent

English

Noun

field tent (plural field tents)

1. A canvas tent used by the military.
   • 1858, Godfrey Rhodes, Tents and Tent-Life, from the earliest ages to the present time, page 192:

     The peg-bag (containing for field tent, twenty pegs, two mallets, and one driver; for guard tent, ten pegs, 'One mallet, and one driver) is placed on one side of the tent covering. The wooden head is packed within the folds of the canvas; the storm and ground ropes for the field tent are laid on the top or sides of the canvas.

   • 1860, Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard:

     An ordinary “ single-poled circular conical tent," without any side walls, but occupying the same space of ground, and of the same height and width as my field tent, contains about 354 cubic feet of air, thus allowing about 44 1/2 cubic feet for each man, 8 min in the tent; and about 29 1/2 cubic feet for each man, 12 men in the tent.

   • 1983, William Daniel Ehrhart, Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir, →ISBN, page 194:

     The two-man field tent, commonly known as a pup-tent, was standard issue, and in boot camp a great deal of effort had been spent in teaching us to erect the pup-tent correctly.

   • 2011, Raymond George Ross, Heroes of Vietnam, →ISBN, page 22:

     I counted what looked like a Mess Hall, a single barracks and another under construction, and a field tent.