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Definition of Tenter
1. Noun. A framework with hooks used for stretching and drying cloth.
Definition of Tenter
1. n. One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
2. n. A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square.
3. v. i. To admit extension.
4. v. t. To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.
Definition of Tenter
1. Noun. A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried. ¹
2. Verb. To stretch cloth on such a framework. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tenter
1. to stretch on a type of frame [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenter
Literary usage of Tenter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"On or upon the tenter or tenters, on the stretch ; on the rack ; hence, in distress,
... We fear he will be bankrupt ; he does stretch, tenter his credit so ..."
2. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown: Or, A System of the Principal Matters by William Hawkins, John Curwood (1824)
"Larceny of Woollens from tenter Grounds. t Sect. 1. By 22 Car. 2. c. 5. s. 3. "
No person or persons " who shall be indicted for felonious cutting and ..."
3. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1866)
"Uft-tenter. The name given in some parts of England to a sort of regulator or
governor applied to windmills to counteract the irregular action of the wind. ..."
4. The Exchequer Reports: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, William Newland Welsby, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Gordon (1853)
"Whether the plaintiff be entitled to recover the price for which the goods actually
sold, (which Lord tenter den thinks he cannot unless the vessel arrives, ..."
5. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1851)
"... would stretch us on the tenter hooks of unendurable suspense. that— ' The only
fault's with time, All men become good creatures, but so slow! ..."
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