A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried. / One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman. / (engineering) A kind of governor, or regulating device.

(transitive) To stretch cloth on such a framework. / (intransitive) To admit extension; to be stretchable.

plural of tenter

present participle of tenter

The stretching of cloth on tenters

simple past tense and past participle of tenter

Alternative form of tenterhook

Alternative form of tenterhook

plural of tenter hook

plural of tenterhook