tenter

Speech parts

1. tenter - Noun

2. tenter - Verb

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

A kind of governor.

A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square.

To admit extension.

To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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frame framework

tentered tentering

retent netter

tentativeness tented tenten tenter hook tenterbelly Tenterden