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Definition of Tentered
1. tenter [v] - See also: tenter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tentered
Literary usage of Tentered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the Abuses in England in Shakspere's Youth, A by Phillip Stubbes, Thomas Neogeorgus, Gervase Babington (1879)
"Now, it being thus tentered at his hands, and after at the Drapers handes, I pray
you how mould this cloth be ought, or endure long? Our Goldsmiths Theod. ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1818)
"... no less than 36 pieces of cloth, and warps, can be sized, tentered, and dried;
and at the same time a very large quantity of wool can be dried also. ..."
3. Words, Facts, and Phrases: A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, & Out-of-the-way by Eliezer Edwards (1882)
"Cloth, after being woven, is tentered or stretched by means of hooks passed through
... A tent is a lodging-place made of canvas ' tentered' or stretched. ..."
4. Journal by Chartered Insurance Institute (1902)
"The wet piece is then dried and tentered in the steam ... whilst being tentered,
is dried by means of the exhaust fan and chamber at a much lower ..."
5. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1763)
"... beyond the feas, mail be found to have been formerly tentered, ... the fame
was fo tentered, drained or ..."
6. Woollen and Worsted Cloth Manufacture: Being a Practical Treatise for the by Roberts Beaumont (1890)
"... cloth is again raised and then washed in clean water, when it is tentered and
dried and taken to the gig for dry raising to facilitate cutting. ..."
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