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ten⋅ter⋅hook

  [ten-ter-hook]
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–noun
1. one of the hooks or bent nails that hold cloth stretched on a tenter.
—Idiom
2. on tenterhooks, in a state of uneasy suspense or painful anxiety: The movie keeps one on tenterhooks until the very last moment.
Origin:
1470–80; tenter + hook
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ten·ter·hook   (těn'tər-hŏŏk')   
n.  A hooked nail for securing cloth on a tenter.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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