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Meaning of tenter

- One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
- A kind of governor.
- A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square.
- To admit extension.
- To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.