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tenter frame
Variant of tenter
tenter
definition
ten·ter (ten′tər)
noun
- a frame on which cloth is stretched after having been milled, so as to dry evenly without shrinkingin full tenter frame
- Obsolete a tenterhook
Etymology: ME tentoure, altered (infl. by tent, tent) < MFr tendëure < tendre, to stretch: see tend
transitive verb
to stretch (cloth) on a tenter or tenters
Etymology: ME tenteren
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