tenter frame

Variant of tenter

tenter definition

ten·ter (ten′tər)

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

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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