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verb (used with object)
3.
to stretch (cloth) on a tenter or tenters.
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verb (used without object)
4.
to be capable of being tentered.
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tenter
c.1300, "wooden framework for stretching cloth," via O.Fr. (the evolution of the ending is obscure), probably ultimately from L. tentorium "tent made of stretched skins," from tentus "stretched," variant pp. of tendere "to stretch" (see tenet).
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