Tenters is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.
You can make 127 anagrams from letters in tenters (eenrstt).
1300-50; Middle English tente to stretch (Latin tentus, variant of tēnsus tense1) + -er1; replacing Middle English teynt
Too near for reflection; too far for intervention: on tenter hooks, in fact; a sort of mental crucifixion.
Sometimes hooks were used, from which we get the phrase 'to be on tenter hooks'—to be on a stretch with anxiety.
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.
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.
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.
The tenter tries to catch him before he can touch the wall or post or whatever is chosen for the home.
If the tenter is thus caught tripping, the prisoner can escape from the Den.
Sometimes the tenter, instead of standing with one foot in the Den, stands as far off the prisoner as the prisoner can spit.
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