tenter
noun
a framework on which cloth in the process of manufacture is stretched so it may set or dry evenly.
tenters
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pluralof tenter.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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At Colter Bay, in the Grand Tetons of Wyoming, a luxurious campground financed by the Rockefellers has segregated areas for cabin campers, trailer campers, campers, or just plain tenters.
From Time Magazine Archive
The preachers left the field to join the tenters; and, if possible, surpassed their previous exhibitions.
From A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America by S. A. (Simon Ansley) Ferrall
And pray write now, to say you do so come, for dear Mrs. Westwood else will be on the tenters of incertitude.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
True woman!—How you love to put one upon the tenters!
From Pamela, Volume II by Samuel Richardson
No thrall’s hands in the hangings were, No thrall’s hands made the tenters bare.
From Poems By the Way by William Morris
