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TenteredTenter Ten"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tentered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Tentering.]
To admit extension.
Woolen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely. --Bacon. Tenter
Tenter Ten"ter, n.
1. One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a
kind of assistant foreman.
2. (Mach.) A kind of governor.
TenterTenter Ten"ter, n. [OE. tenture, tentoure, OF. tenture a
stretching, spreading, F. tenture hangings, tapestry, from L.
tendere, tentum, to stretch. See Tend to move.]
A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks,
called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square.
Tenter ground, a place where tenters are erected.
Tenter-hook, a sharp, hooked nail used for fastening cloth
on a tenter.
To be on the tenters, or on the tenter-hooks, to be on
the stretch; to be in distress, uneasiness, or suspense.
--Hudibras. TenterTenter Ten"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tentered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Tentering.]
To admit extension.
Woolen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely. --Bacon. Tenter
Tenter Ten"ter, v. t.
To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.
Meaning of Tentered from wikipedia
- cross- shaped metal piece, on the spindle. The spindle is carried by the tentering gear, a set of beams forming a lever system, or a **** jack, with which...
- University) wrote "I was never so much on tenter hooks before." "Fulling and Tentering « Trowbridge Museum". trowbridgemuseum.co.uk. Approximate centroid of...
- machine is to stretch and dry. The frames were called tenters and the tentering hooks were the metal hooks used for holding the fabric to the frame. Tenters...
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- weaver would use a frame loom to weave this into cloth. This was then tentered in the sun to bleach it. The invention by John Kay of the flying shuttle...
- supply. Finer speed adjustment was made during the milling process by tentering, that is, adjusting the gap between the stones according to the water...
- intermediate floor is tentering of the main shaft of douglas fir with an iron construction, which used to have a motor. Also here are the tentering of the grinding...
- it was common to think in multiples of 400 looms. These looms would be tentered by weavers who worked from four to eight looms each and were paid on piece-rate...
- used to lay out their fabrics to bleach in the sun (a process known as tentering). Although Wilson doubts this, believing it to be chronologically inaccurate...
- kept working by a tackler who tentered 130. With the More Looms system brought in after the second war, weavers tentered ten looms, but the tackler had...
