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ten•ter



Pronunciation: (ten'tur), [key]
—n.
1. a framework on which cloth in the process of manufacture is stretched so it may set or dry evenly.
2. Obs.a tenterhook.

—v.t.
to stretch (cloth) on a tenter or tenters.

—v.i.
to be capable of being tentered.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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