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tenter
[ ten-ter ]
noun
- a framework on which cloth in the process of manufacture is stretched so it may set or dry evenly.
- Obsolete. a tenterhook.
verb (used with object)
- to stretch (cloth) on a tenter or tenters.
verb (used without object)
- to be capable of being tentered.
tenter
/ ˈtɛntə /
noun
- a frame on which cloth is stretched during the manufacturing process in order that it may retain its shape while drying
- a person who stretches cloth on a tenter
verb
- tr to stretch (cloth) on a tenter
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- un·tentered adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tenter1
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Example Sentences
Too near for reflection; too far for intervention: on tenter hooks, in fact; a sort of mental crucifixion.
She was not going to seem to give it him yet; a man on the tenter-hooks was a man in the perfectly right place.
Some were hung by the feet to tenter-hooks driven into poles; and in that wretched posture left till they perished.
Meanwhile the guns were unlimbered, and their anxious crew (the battery had never been in action before) were on tenter-hooks.
When the time of his return came nigh, Aunt Judith and the household were on the tenter-hooks of impatience.
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