Tenter Definition

tĕntər
tenters
noun
A frame on which cloth is stretched after having been milled, so as to dry evenly without shrinking.
Webster's New World
A tenterhook.
Webster's New World

One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.

Wiktionary

(engineering) A kind of governor, or regulating device.

Wiktionary
verb
To stretch (cloth) on a tenter or tenters.
Webster's New World
(intransitive) To admit extension; to be stretchable.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Tenter

Noun

Singular:
tenter
Plural:
tenters

Origin of Tenter

  • Middle English teyntur, tentour probably ultimately from Latin tentōrium shelter made of stretched skins from tendere to stretch tent1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Via Old French, perhaps from Latin tentorium.

    From Wiktionary

Tenter Sentence Examples

  • One, the Surry Mountain Campground was near our house and a brief drive-through showed only one out of state visitor, a New Hampshire tenter.

  • Edward Sissons engine tenter at the Park Pit was charged by Mr. Wells of neglecting rules 51 and 52 of the pit.

  • The tenter frame used for drying the finished cloth to a uniform width when the weather allowed, is still in an adjacent field.

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Words Starting With

TTETEN

Words Ending With

RERTER

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With T6 Letter Words Ending With R