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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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bow tent
noun
a type of shelter made by the improvisation of throwing a tarpaulin over two bent saplings:
‘
Aye, we build wir wee summer tent, wee bow tent.’
’
20-
.
etymology:
from its shape; only attested by
BS in TDITA
,
SS
,
DW
and
DW
in
DC