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n. A framework on which milled cloth is stretched for drying without shrinkage.

n. Archaic A tenterhook.

v. To stretch (cloth) on a tenter.

n. A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried.

v. To stretch cloth on such a framework.

n. One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.

n. A kind of governor.

n. A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square.

verb-intransitive. To admit extension.

v. To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.

n. One who lives in a tent.

n. A machine or frame used in the manufacture of cloth to stretch out the pieces of stuff, so that they may set or dry evenly and square.

n. Same as tenter-hook.

n. One of the little bristles of a fly's foot; a tentacle.

To hang or stretch on or as on tenters.

To support or resist the straining of the tenter; bear tentering.

n. A tender; one who tends or has the care or oversight of something: as, a cattle-tenter; specifically, a person in a factory who tends or watches machinery; often, also, an overseer or foreman in a factory.

n. a framework with hooks used for stretching and drying cloth

"Lily, a regular "tenter," shot up freely, grew up a real tomboy, went a bit too far, in fact, Ma said: at Honolulu, for instance, on the road to"

to be on the tenter-hooks    to be on tenterhooks   

tentered    tentering    tenters   

framework   

drawing tenter    tenters   

tentered    tentering    tenterhook   

framed    stretch   

subitement    sauver    envoyer    manquer    folie    comparer    conserver    retenir    imposer    klatha