n. 1. A framework on which milled cloth is stretched for drying without shrinkage. 2. Archaic A tenterhook. tr.v. ten·tered, ten·ter·ing, ten·ters To stretch (cloth) on a tenter. [Middle English teyntur, tentour, probably ultimately from Latin tentōrium, shelter made of stretched skins, from tendere, to stretch; see TENT1.] |
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