TENTER

tenter

Noun

  1. A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried.
  2. One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
  3. A kind of governor, or regulating device.

Verb

  1. To stretch cloth on such a framework.
  2. To admit extension; to be stretchable.


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