Definition of "tenter"

tenter

/ˈtɛn.təɹ/

noun
plural tenters
1. A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried.
2. One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
3. (engineering) A kind of governor, or regulating device.
verb
third-person singular simple present tenters, present participle tentering, simple past and past participle tentered
1. (transitive) To stretch cloth on such a framework.
2. (intransitive) To admit extension; to be stretchable.
  Quotations
  Woollen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely.
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