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Tentmaker

Tentmaker \Tent"mak`er\, n. One whose occupation it is to make tents.
--Acts xviii. 3.

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tentmaker

n. A manufacturer of tents.

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tentmaker

n. someone who makes or repairs tents

Usage examples of "tentmaker".

He cheerfully showed her several stitches she had never seen before, and she was pleased enough to invite the tentmaker in to lunch.

Not only had that fanatic Jewish tentmaker Aquila returned to Rome, he had even dared to show his ruddy face on the Esquiline, ostensibly to see if the garden canopy was in good repair.

During their temporary exile in Corinth, they had met another Jewish tentmaker named Paulus.

Pomponia tell their daughter wild tales about that Chrestus or Christus who had started it all, and of the tentmaker who was spreading the stories.

Corinth, did the case of a Jewish tentmaker named Paulus ever cross your tribunal?

Thrice-cursed the day that cursed tentmaker ever set foot in his house!

Therefore, nothing is, in my opinion, more unjust and absurd than the hate with which certain disciples of Paul, the tentmaker, pursue the most unfortunate of the apostles of Jesus without realising that the kiss of Iscariot--prophesied by Jesus Himself--was necessary, according to their own doctrine, for the redemption of men, and that if Judas had not received the thirty pieces, the divine wisdom would have been impugned, Providence frustrated, its designs upset, and the world given over to evil, ignorance, and death.

From this point the haggling would be over how much the tentmaker would pay, not the other way around.

I would have been stuck with that tentmaker and gotten the treatment later, when the local monk got the drugs he needed.

Fisherman, and the great Tentmaker, a man of manual labour lifted entirely by his wit to be a very great power indeed in the community where he was stationed.

He was a landscape gardener under the Babylonians and a tentmaker under the Persians.

I had the tentmaker give me one larger tent for the girls and one smaller one for Ishak.

Or, as he preferreth thou callest him, Omar Khayyam, Omar the Tentmaker.

I glimpsed the entrances to the streets devoted to crafts—the street of the tentmakers, the street of the silversmiths.

I glimpsed the entrances to the streets devoted to crafts – the street of the tentmakers, the street of the silversmiths.