tenter
- noun
- /ˈtɛntər/
- Archaic
:
tensador
- The artisan adjusted the hooks on the tenter to ensure the fabric remained taut.
Examples
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The cloth was carefully stretched on the tenter to dry evenly after washing.
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About half the clothiers in Armley in 1806 had small plots, some with "only half a rood to hold tenters... and others two or three acres, those that can keep a cow or a galloway."
Academic text (1993) -
When I was a tenter, which was all my life until 2010, I wanted to be so far away I couldn't even see them.
Blog text (22) -
There is no excuse for stupidity, but it is surprising that tenters would want to get that close to an RV.
Blog text (22) -
I've never understood why tenters wouldn't want to be as far away from RVs as they could get.
Blog text (22) -
Oddly, the tenters have grown quite used to the smell of the rotting elephant carcass they sit on.
Blog text (20) -
37 grains for clothiers' horses, milk and potatoes for their families, sizing boilers' waste for manure, pasture land used as tenter grounds, all demonstrated the close relationship between local farming and manufacture.
Academic text (1993) -
After the weaving process, the workers placed the newly created cloth on the tenter for drying.
Synonyms
A frame for hanging wet clothes to dry indoors
A frame for hanging clothes to dry or to display them
A tool that holds fabric tight while you sew patterns by hand
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tenter comes from an old word meaning 'to stretch'. A tenter was a frame with hooks that pulled cloth tight as it dried, so the name shows its job to keep the cloth under 'tension' (think tension) and even gave us the phrase 'on tenterhooks' for feeling nervous.
