cook-tent

A form of cooktent — A tent that is equipped with cooking paraphernalia that supplies food for a camp.

Meanings

nouncook-tent (plural cook-tents)

plural cook-tents

  1. alternativeAlternative form of cooktent.

    The ground before the cook-tent was soft, and trampled by the girls' own feet.

    2017, Gertrude Morrison, The Girls of Central High in Camp
    2 more examples

    Are you too busy, Tom, to come over to the cook-tent with us for a few moments?

    1910, George Barr McCutcheon, The Rose in the Ring

    Once past the pickets, we had to remain hidden until Loiosh and I could identify the cook-tent.

    2010, Steven Brust, Dragon
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