tenter

A framework on which milled cloth is stretched for drying without shrinkage.

A tenterhook.

To stretch (cloth) on a tenter.

One who lives in a tent.

To hang or stretch on or as on tenters.

To support or resist the straining of the tenter; bear tentering.

A tender; one who tends or has the care or oversight of something: as, a cattle-tenter; specifically, a person in a factory who tends or watches machinery; often, also, an overseer or foreman in a factory.

A machine or frame used in the manufacture of cloth to stretch out the pieces of stuff, so that they may set or dry evenly and square.

Same as tenter-hook.

One of the little bristles of a fly’s foot; a tentacle.