Definitions for tenter

tenter ten·ter

Spelling: [ten-ter]
IPA: /ˈtɛn tər/

Tenter is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in tenter (eenrtt).

Definitions for tenter

noun

  1. a framework on which cloth in the process of manufacture is stretched so it may set or dry evenly.
  2. Obsolete. a tenterhook.

verb (used with object)

  1. to stretch (cloth) on a tenter or tenters.

verb (used without object)

  1. to be capable of being tentered.

Origin of tenter

1300-50; Middle English tente to stretch (Latin tentus, variant of tēnsus tense1) + -er1; replacing Middle English teynt

Examples for tenter

One of the boys puts his stone on the Duckstone, and he is called the tenter.

I'm on tenter hooks to know whether I shall have a Reprimand, or a bad conduct mark in my report.

tenter de s'lever le long de ses parois, qui ne prsentaient aucune saillie, tait impraticable.

Whenever the lantern was filled, the tenter carried the roving to a simple machine, where it was wound upon bobbins by hand.

If the tenter is thus caught tripping, the prisoner can escape from the Den.

Sometimes hooks were used, from which we get the phrase 'to be on tenter hooks'—to be on a stretch with anxiety.

Too near for reflection; too far for intervention: on tenter hooks, in fact; a sort of mental crucifixion.

At one kind two girls sit, each watching an edge of the cloth and keeping it straight on the tenter hooks, so it will feed evenly.

The tenter tries to catch him before he can touch the wall or post or whatever is chosen for the home.

Sometimes the tenter, instead of standing with one foot in the Den, stands as far off the prisoner as the prisoner can spit.

Word Value for tenter
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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