Tenter

Origin

Via Old French, perhaps from Latin tentorium.

Full definition of tenter

Noun

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

1. (transitive) To stretch cloth on such a framework.
2. (intransitive) To admit extension; to be stretchable.
• Francis BaconWoollen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely.

Derived terms

• tenterhook

Anagrams

• netter