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

noun. A tenterhook.

transitive verb. To stretch (cloth) on a tenter.

noun. One who lives in a tent.

To hang or stretch on or as on tenters.

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

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. Same as tenter-hook.

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

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

noun. A kind of governor.

transitive verb. To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.

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

noun. a place where tenters are erected.

noun. a sharp, hooked nail used for fastening cloth on a tenter.

noun. to be on the stretch; to be in distress, uneasiness, or suspense.

noun. undefined

noun. undefined

intransitive verb. To admit extension.

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

verb. To stretch cloth on such a framework.

noun. 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"

drawing tenter  tenters  

to be on tenterhooks  to be on the tenter-hooks  

tentered  tenterhook  tentering  

framework  

comparer  conserver  croire  envoyer  folie  

framed  stretch  

tentered  tentering  tenters