Tenter

Tenter - Other Definitions

• (n.) One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
  
  
• (n.) A kind of governor.
  
  
• (n.) A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square.
  
  
• (v. i.) To admit extension.
  
  
• (v. t.) To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.