Associations to the word «Tenter»
Wiktionary
TENTER, noun. A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried.
TENTER, noun. One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
TENTER, noun. (engineering) A kind of governor, or regulating device.
TENTER, verb. (transitive) To stretch cloth on such a framework.
TENTER, verb. (intransitive) To admit extension; to be stretchable.
Dictionary definition
TENTER, noun. A framework with hooks used for stretching and drying cloth.
Wise words
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time
as the bullets go flying through space.