shelter tent
noun
1.
a small, two-person, military tent consisting of two halves
(shelter halves)
buttoned or tied together, held up by accessory ropes and poles.
Also called
pup tent
.
Origin
1860-65,
Americanism
Examples from the web for
shelter tent
The army lolls and longs for the shade, of which some get a hand's breadth, from a
shelter tent
stuck upon a ramrod.
Your correspondent having a horse to carry him, returned to the camp, and had a blanket and a
shelter tent
over him.
We crawled under our little
shelter tent
to peruse a letter which each of us had received.
British Dictionary definitions for
shelter tent
shelter tent
noun
1.
(
US
) a military tent for two men