tenter
pronunciation
How to pronounce tenter in British English:
UK ['tentə]
How to pronounce tenter in American English:
US ['tentə]
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- Noun:
- a framework with hooks used for stretching and drying cloth
Word Origin
- tenter (n.)
- c. 1300, "wooden framework for stretching cloth," of uncertain origin, probably via Old French (but the evolution of the ending is obscure), and ultimately from Latin tentorium "tent made of stretched skins," from tentus "stretched," variant past participle of tendere "to stretch" (see tenet).
Example
- 1. Enuresis treatment tenter of pediatric hospital attached to fudan university .
- 2. A man stooped down and fastened the chain around the tenter of a steel beam , stepped back and blew the whistle once more .