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tenter frame

Variant of tenter

noun

  1. a frame on which cloth is stretched after having been milled, so as to dry evenly without shrinking
    in full tenter frame
  2. Obsolete a tenterhook

transitive verb

to stretch (cloth) on a tenter or tenters

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