tentern.¹

Brit.

/ˈtɛntə/, U.S.

/ˈtɛn(t)ər/

Forms: Middle English teyntur, Middle English tayntour, tentowre, Middle English–1500s tentour, Middle English–1600s taynter, teynter, tenture, Middle English–1700s tentor, 1500s teynto(u)r, -tree, tentar, 1500s–1600s tainter, teinter, teintor, 1500s– tenter.

Etymology: The varieties of the suffix make the exact origin somewhat obscure: the forms in -ur, -our, -or, -er, -ar, point to an Anglo-Norman or Old French *tentour, Latin *tentōr-em stretcher, agent-noun < tendĕre to stretch, which suits the sense; but neither the Old French nor the Latin word is known in the sense ‘tenter’. The rare form tenture is equated by Promp. Parv. with Latin tentūra , but this ought to mean the process of stretching or its product: compare French tenture action of stretching, also tapestry hangings; which does not agree with the sense of ‘stretching instrument or apparatus’. On the other hand, if the word were merely an English agent-noun < tent v.³, it would be difficult to account for the various forms of the ending. The forms in teynt-, taynt-, teint-, taint- also offer difficulty, suggesting some association with French teint dye.

1. A wooden framework on which cloth is stretched after being milled, so that it may set or dry evenly and without shrinking. Also †a pair of tenters (Obsolete rare) and in plural form tenters.Formerly tenters of the length of a web of cloth stood in rows in the open air in tenter-fields or grounds, and were a prominent feature in cloth-manufacturing districts; but the process of drying and stretching is now generally done much more rapidly in tenter-houses by tenter- or tentering-machines.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > stretching > framework

tenter13..

rack1328

tenter-frame1835

the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > that by which something is suspended > hook

hookc900

crookc1290

rackhook1457

tenter1592

tenterhook1888

cup hook1895

13.. Charter Holy Ghost (Vernon MS.) in Hampole's Wks. I. 361 Whon þe Iewes hedden þus nayled Criston þe cros as men doþ cloþ on a tey [n] tur [v.rr. streynour, rakke].

1408 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 60 Johannes London occupat unum croftum cum taynters.

1435 Coventry Leet Bk. 172 No walker off the Cite of Couentre..Shall Rakke no Clothe on the Tey [n] tur that schall be solde ffor wette-clothe.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 489/1 Tenture, for clothe (S. tentowre),..Ug. V. in V. tentura (P. constrictorium).

1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 8 §1 Many of the seid Clothes..ben sett uppon Tayntours and drawen out in leyngth and brede.

1495 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 284 Accyon off trespas for takynge vp teynters.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 280/1 Tentar for clothe, tend, tende.

a1535 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. i. 394 Neuer anye Parchement skynne was more strayghtlye stratched by strength vpon the tentors.

1548 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 94 For a gardeyn and a peyre of teyntors at the Bridgende.

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1710) I. 78 A great Numbre of Tainters for Wollen Clothes.

1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. G^v That he draw his cloth and pull it passing hard when he sets it vpon the tenters.

1642 in J. Lister's Autobiog. (1842) 78 The cannon..beat down the barrs of a tenter.

1646 J. Temple Irish Rebell. 95 [He] led the boy to his Fathers tentors, and there hanged him.

1657 C. Beck Universal Char. sig. L6 A tenture or tenter to stretch cloth in.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Tenter, called also Tryer and Prover, a Machine used in the Cloth Manufactory... 'Tis usually about Four Feet and a Half high, and for Length, exceeds that of the longest Piece of Cloth.

1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing II. ii. ii. v. 108 It is dried on the tenters in the open air.

1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. ii. 30 The cloth was torn from his tenters and left in shreds in the field.

figurative.1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. I4^v O Night, that..like a cloth of cloudes dost stretch thy limbes; Vpon the windy Tenters of the Ayre.1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xvii. 675/1 Albeit his words intended no treason..yet..the tenture of the Law made them his death.1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge To Rdr. As the one had wrackt and limm'd my thoughts, with endless tenters and boundless retchings out.

†2.

a. = tenterhook n. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

tenterhook1480

tent-hook1491

tenter1605

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 350 Then Auarice all-arm'd in hooking Tenters.

1678 Massacre in Ireland 3 Two Boys [were] wounded and hung upon Butchers Tenters.

1744 Philos. Trans. 1742–3 (Royal Soc.) 42 425 The little Papillæ..on the Surface of the Arms assist them like so many Hooks or Tenters to hold their Worms barely by touching them.

1795 J. Wolcot Liberty's Last Squeak in Wks. (1812) III. 422 And hang their Hearts, like Butcher's Meat, on tenters.

1810 G. Crabbe Borough i. 8 Fences..(With Tenters tip'd) a strong repulsive bound.

figurative.1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. v. 21 Abused Statutes had no Tenters, And men could deale secure without Indentures.1849 J. Sterling in Fraser's Mag. 39 416 Slight Folly's pen, not Passion's burning tenter, Tears up our roots.

†b. transferred. A hooked organ or part. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [noun] > hooked hair or barb

tenter1616

tenterhook1665

barb1864

hook1866

the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > [noun] > hooked part

tenter1616

tenterhook1665

hook1666

hooklet1836

1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. i. 16 Thornes and tangling bushes, Whose tenters sticking in her garments, sought..to help her.

1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xxiii. 323 Palms, pattens, or soles [of flies' feet]..beset underneath with small bristles or tenters.

†3. figurative esp. in phrases:

a. to put, set, stretch, etc. on (the) tenter(s, = to set on tenterhooks; to rack: see tenterhook n. 2a, 2b Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > misapply > apply or use beyond its province

overstretcha1425

to put, set, stretch, etc. on (the) tenter(sa1533

stretch1553

to put, set, strain, stretch on the tenterhooks1583

outstretch1597

strain1597

tenter1611

overdraw1889

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Cc.ij^v Ye haue strayned it on the tentours, and drawen it on the perche.

1551 T. Cranmer Answer S. Gardiner 66 But the Papistes haue set Christes wordes vppon the tenters and stretched them owt so farre, that they make his wordes to signyfy as pleaseth them, not as he ment.

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. E8 They inhance the rents, & set their fines on tenter.

1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 133 Nor ought the conscience in these to be set upon the rack and tainter.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxiv. 341 I have pity'd him many a time, when I have seen him stretched on the Tenters to keep thee in Countenance.

b. to be on (the) tenter(s, i.e. in a position of strain, difficulty, or uneasiness; to be in a state of anxious suspense. Now rare or Obsolete, superseded by on tenterhooks: see tenterhook n. 2c.

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the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > be apprehensive [verb (intransitive)]

trance1340

to be on (the) tenter(s1633

to be on (the) tenterhooks1748

stew1917

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > state of uncertainty, suspense > be in suspense [verb (intransitive)]

dependc1430

to hang up1623

to be on (the) tenter(s1633

to be on (the) tenterhooks1748

(to be, sit, stand, walk) on thorns (a thorn)1768

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > anxiety > be anxious [verb (intransitive)] > be acutely anxious

to be on (the) tenter(s1633

to chafe, fret, fry, melt, stew, sweat in one's own grease1663

to be on (the) tenterhooks1748

to be on heckle pins1850

sweat1963

1633 J. Ford Broken Heart i. iii. sig. C2 My very heart strings Are on the Tenters.

1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 30 I was upon the Tenters to know the Reason of my Confinement.

1794 W. Scott Let. 8 June (1932) I. 30 Your curiosity will be upon the Tenters to hear the wonderful events.

1806 ‘C. Caustic’ Democracy Unveiled (ed. 3) I. ii. 39 Stretch'd on the tenters of anxiety By blunder crime or impropriety.

†4. A stretching implement: ? = tent n.³ Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > stretching implement

tenter1607

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 187 Put in the Opponax, and of both together make like taynters or splints and thurst [sic] them into the wound.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 302 This applyed to the bytten place in a linnen cloth, and tentures twice a day, did perfectly recouer her health within a month.

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iv. i. 360 A Box of Anatomick Instruments; sc. Saws, Steel and Ivory Knives,..a Tenter.

Compounds

C1. General attributive. See also tenter-ground n., tenterhook n., tenter-yard n.

tenter-stretched adj.

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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > [adjective] > of argument: valid, constructive > not

weaka1538

tenter-stretched1641

weakish1890

1641 B. Rudyerd Five Speeches in Parl. 17 Not to presse such tenter-stretch'd arguments.

C2.

tenter-balk n. (also tenter-bauk) see quots.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > hook or frame for hanging meat > supporting beams

tenter-balk1876

roost1880

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Tenter-bauks, the beams to which the butcher's meat-hooks are fastened.

tenter-bar n.

ΚΠ

1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tenter-bar, a device for stretching cloth.

tenter-field n.

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tenter-place1457

tenter-yard1481

tenter-ground1714

tenter-field1844

1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. iii. 104 The cloth is stretched out and hung up to dry. This used to be done in the tenter-fields.

tenter-frame n. = sense 1.

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tenter13..

rack1328

tenter-frame1835

1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 192 When the fulling is finished, the cloth is stretched once more on the tenter-frame, and left in the open air till it is dry.

1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood Gloss. at Tenters The tenter-frames are upright bars placed at a short distance from each other and connected by other horizontal ones, top and bottom, having an array of hooks at equal distances on which the cloth is fastened by the listing of both sides.

tenter-house n.

tenter-machine n. see sense 1 (note).

tenter-place n. = tenter-ground n.

ΘΚΠ

tenter-place1457

tenter-yard1481

tenter-ground1714

tenter-field1844

1457 in R. Arnold Chron. (c1503) f. xxv/2 All thoo in the said cite or subbarbis that ocupye..teynter placys for fullers.

tenter-timber n. timber for making tenters.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > wood for other specific uses

mazera1200

waywoodware1334

piling1422

tenter-timber1562

pinwood1580

mazer wood1594

stop-rice1653

pudlay1679

puncheon1686

veneer1702

pit-wood1715

broach-wood1835

chipwood1838

matchwood1838

fretwood1881

pulpwood1881

coffin-wood1883

bur1885

spool-wood1895

1562 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 152 Stees, stanggs, peatts, old tenture tymber, xs.

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tentern.²

Brit.

/ˈtɛntə/, U.S.

/ˈtɛn(t)ər/

Etymology: < tent v.⁶ + -er suffix¹.

1. One who lives or lodges in a tent.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > dweller in tent

lodgera1300

Scenite1575

tenter1846

camper1856

tent-man1880

1846 Indiana Hist. Mag. XXIII. 409 The eating hours were the same as those of the tenters.

1888 Harper's Mag. Oct. 801/1 The pretty girl of our civilization, who pushes into the canvas home of the tenters.

1907 Daily News 27 Nov. 3/2 Originally intended for the benefit of gipsies, the evangelism..has attracted adherents from all classes, now proud to style themselves ‘tenters’.

2. One whose job is to erect and strike tents.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > one who sets up tents

stenter1545

tenter1864

1864 J. G. Bertram Glimpses Real Life xiii. 123 There must be a tent-master and tenters, besides the agent in advance, the members of the brass band, [etc.].

1979 Daily Tel. 23 Apr. 14/8 The slow building and dismantling of the marquee on stage was..a documentary about tenters and their jobs.

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tentern.³

Brit.

/ˈtɛntə/, U.S.

/ˈtɛn(t)ər/

Etymology: < tent v.¹ + -er suffix¹.

dialect.

a. One who minds, or has charge of, anything requiring attention, as a machine, a flock, etc.

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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > one who looks after

nurse?a1425

minder1692

tenter1828

mother hen1873

nursemaid1943

citizen advocate1971

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Tenters, watchers, moor-tenters.

1863 Mrs. Toogood Specim. Yorks. Dial. I will hire that boy as a tenter for my sheep.

1870 Inquiry Yorks. Deaf & Dumb 59 Simeon Smith, cropping-machine tenter.

1885 Manch. Examiner 20 Feb. 5/3 The engine tenter..found the doors of the mill unlocked.

b. Applied to a watchdog.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > guard dog

porter?a1425

wap1464

dog keeper1576

mooner1576

warner1576

house dog1577

mâtin1579

defender1607

housekeeper1607

watchdoga1616

moondog1668

yard-dog1795

guard dog1796

big dog1833

tenter1844

junkyard dog1936

prowl dog1974

1844 S. Bamford Walks S. Lancs. 47 in Eng. Dial. Dict. Will he do for a tenter? will he bark at night?

2. An attendant on a skilled workman, who gives him unskilled help, supplies materials, etc.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to status > [noun] > assistant

assistant?1541

adjacent1600

help1645

helper1686

aide1762

asst1782

tenter1894

offsider1904

runabout1957

ancillary1962

gofer1967

1894 Labour Commission Gloss. Tenters, assistants to the weaver, generally children, who have gone through a short process of probation.

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tenterv.

Brit.

/ˈtɛntə/, U.S.

/ˈtɛn(t)ər/

Etymology: < tenter n.¹

a. transitive. To stretch (cloth) on a tenter or tenters.

ΘΚΠ

tent1377

tenter1437

set1473

1437 Coventry Leet Bk. 187 Yeff so be that hit wol-not bere the seyde lengeth than that the walker Teynter hym out to the lengethe off xv yerdes.

1473 in R. Arnold Chron. (c1503) f. xxvij^v/1 The vntrouth falshed and desept..now daily vsed in the fullyng teynteryng or settyng and sheryng of wullen cloth.

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. D7 After they haue bought their cloth, they cause it to be tentered, racked, and so drawne out, as it shall be both broader, and longer than it was.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §12 As when..Leather or Cloth tentured spring back.

1673 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. (1882) I. 354 Having some land..where his cloth is tentered.

1789 J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle II. 320 The ordinary of this society, called anciently walkers,..enacted that no brother should..tentor cloth on a Sunday.

1876 W. Cudworth Round about Bradford vii. 466 Returning home.., the cloth was ‘tentered’—that is, if weather permitted.

†b. transferred. To hang or stretch as on a tenter or tenters. Obsolete.

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society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > on the rack

spread?c1225

fordrawc1380

enginec1405

rack?a1439

stentc1480

streekc1480

draw1481

brake1530

excarnificate1570

excruciate1570

stretch1585

to break on the torture1598

distend1599

tenter1615

tousea1616

tympanize1647

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > attach or affix [verb (transitive)] > as if on a tenter

tenter1615

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 244 If the heart needed any tension, it might better haue beene tentered, and with shorter stringes to the spine of the back.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 194 Do the cruel tormentors tenter out his pretious limmes.

a1677 I. Barrow Brief Expos. Creed (1697) 184 We may easily imagine what acerbity of pain must be endured in his limbs being stretched forth, racked and tentered.

†2. figurative. To set on the tenter, or on tenterhooks: see tenter n.¹ 3, tenterhook n. 2b. Also, to injure or pain as by stretching; to rack, torture (the feelings, etc.). Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > misapply > apply or use beyond its province

overstretcha1425

to put, set, stretch, etc. on (the) tenter(sa1533

stretch1553

to put, set, strain, stretch on the tenterhooks1583

outstretch1597

strain1597

tenter1611

overdraw1889

1611 R. Fenton Treat. Vsurie 38 Verily if vsurie were not, men would tenter their wits, either in trading themselues or imploying others.

a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush ii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ll/1 He do's stretch Tenter his credite so.

1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox iii. 49 It might be done without tentering his Conscience.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. iv. §32 247 It is plain..that Pepys, being once tentered, should have come off secundum artem.

†3. intransitive. Of cloth: To admit of being stretched on the tenter; to bear tentering. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

tenter1626

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §841 Parchment or leather will stretch, paper will not; woollen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely.

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n.¹13..

n.²1846

n.³1828

v.1437

单词	tenter
释义	tentern.¹ Brit. /ˈtɛntə/, U.S. /ˈtɛn(t)ər/ Forms: Middle English teyntur, Middle English tayntour, tentowre, Middle English–1500s tentour, Middle English–1600s taynter, teynter, tenture, Middle English–1700s tentor, 1500s teynto(u)r, -tree, tentar, 1500s–1600s tainter, teinter, teintor, 1500s– tenter. Etymology: The varieties of the suffix make the exact origin somewhat obscure: the forms in -ur, -our, -or, -er, -ar, point to an Anglo-Norman or Old French tentour, Latin tentōr-em stretcher, agent-noun < tendĕre to stretch, which suits the sense; but neither the Old French nor the Latin word is known in the sense ‘tenter’. The rare form tenture is equated by Promp. Parv. with Latin tentūra , but this ought to mean the process of stretching or its product: compare French tenture action of stretching, also tapestry hangings; which does not agree with the sense of ‘stretching instrument or apparatus’. On the other hand, if the word were merely an English agent-noun < tent v.³, it would be difficult to account for the various forms of the ending. The forms in teynt-, taynt-, teint-, taint- also offer difficulty, suggesting some association with French teint dye. 1. A wooden framework on which cloth is stretched after being milled, so that it may set or dry evenly and without shrinking. Also †a pair of tenters (Obsolete rare) and in plural form tenters.Formerly tenters of the length of a web of cloth stood in rows in the open air in tenter-fields or grounds, and were a prominent feature in cloth-manufacturing districts; but the process of drying and stretching is now generally done much more rapidly in tenter-houses by tenter- or tentering-machines. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > stretching > framework tenter13.. rack1328 tenter-frame1835 the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > that by which something is suspended > hook hookc900 crookc1290 rackhook1457 tenter1592 tenterhook1888 cup hook1895 13.. Charter Holy Ghost (Vernon MS.) in Hampole's Wks. I. 361 Whon þe Iewes hedden þus nayled Criston þe cros as men doþ cloþ on a tey [n] tur [v.rr. streynour, rakke]. 1408 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 60 Johannes London occupat unum croftum cum taynters. 1435 Coventry Leet Bk. 172 No walker off the Cite of Couentre..Shall Rakke no Clothe on the Tey [n] tur that schall be solde ffor wette-clothe. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 489/1 Tenture, for clothe (S. tentowre),..Ug. V. in V. tentura (P. constrictorium). 1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 8 §1 Many of the seid Clothes..ben sett uppon Tayntours and drawen out in leyngth and brede. 1495 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 284 Accyon off trespas for takynge vp teynters. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 280/1 Tentar for clothe, tend, tende. a1535 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. i. 394 Neuer anye Parchement skynne was more strayghtlye stratched by strength vpon the tentors. 1548 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 94 For a gardeyn and a peyre of teyntors at the Bridgende. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1710) I. 78 A great Numbre of Tainters for Wollen Clothes. 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. G^v That he draw his cloth and pull it passing hard when he sets it vpon the tenters. 1642 in J. Lister's Autobiog. (1842) 78 The cannon..beat down the barrs of a tenter. 1646 J. Temple Irish Rebell. 95 [He] led the boy to his Fathers tentors, and there hanged him. 1657 C. Beck Universal Char. sig. L6 A tenture or tenter to stretch cloth in. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Tenter, called also Tryer and Prover, a Machine used in the Cloth Manufactory... 'Tis usually about Four Feet and a Half high, and for Length, exceeds that of the longest Piece of Cloth. 1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing II. ii. ii. v. 108 It is dried on the tenters in the open air. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. ii. 30 The cloth was torn from his tenters and left in shreds in the field. figurative.1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. I4^v O Night, that..like a cloth of cloudes dost stretch thy limbes; Vpon the windy Tenters of the Ayre.1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xvii. 675/1 Albeit his words intended no treason..yet..the tenture of the Law made them his death.1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge To Rdr. As the one had wrackt and limm'd my thoughts, with endless tenters and boundless retchings out. †2. a. = tenterhook n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > stretching > framework > hook or nail in tenterhook1480 tent-hook1491 tenter1605 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 350 Then Auarice all-arm'd in hooking Tenters. 1678 Massacre in Ireland 3 Two Boys [were] wounded and hung upon Butchers Tenters. 1744 Philos. Trans. 1742–3 (Royal Soc.) 42 425 The little Papillæ..on the Surface of the Arms assist them like so many Hooks or Tenters to hold their Worms barely by touching them. 1795 J. Wolcot Liberty's Last Squeak in Wks. (1812) III. 422 And hang their Hearts, like Butcher's Meat, on tenters. 1810 G. Crabbe Borough i. 8 Fences..(With Tenters tip'd) a strong repulsive bound. figurative.1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. v. 21 Abused Statutes had no Tenters, And men could deale secure without Indentures.1849 J. Sterling in Fraser's Mag. 39 416 Slight Folly's pen, not Passion's burning tenter, Tears up our roots. †b. transferred. A hooked organ or part. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [noun] > hooked hair or barb tenter1616 tenterhook1665 barb1864 hook1866 the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > [noun] > hooked part tenter1616 tenterhook1665 hook1666 hooklet1836 1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. i. 16 Thornes and tangling bushes, Whose tenters sticking in her garments, sought..to help her. 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xxiii. 323 Palms, pattens, or soles [of flies' feet]..beset underneath with small bristles or tenters. †3. figurative esp. in phrases: a. to put, set, stretch, etc. on (the) tenter(s, = to set on tenterhooks; to rack: see tenterhook n. 2a, 2b Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > misapply > apply or use beyond its province overstretcha1425 to put, set, stretch, etc. on (the) tenter(sa1533 stretch1553 to put, set, strain, stretch on the tenterhooks1583 outstretch1597 strain1597 tenter1611 overdraw1889 a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Cc.ij^v Ye haue strayned it on the tentours, and drawen it on the perche. 1551 T. Cranmer Answer S. Gardiner 66 But the Papistes haue set Christes wordes vppon the tenters and stretched them owt so farre, that they make his wordes to signyfy as pleaseth them, not as he ment. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. E8 They inhance the rents, & set their fines on tenter. 1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 133 Nor ought the conscience in these to be set upon the rack and tainter. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxiv. 341 I have pity'd him many a time, when I have seen him stretched on the Tenters to keep thee in Countenance. b. to be on (the) tenter(s, i.e. in a position of strain, difficulty, or uneasiness; to be in a state of anxious suspense. Now rare or Obsolete, superseded by on tenterhooks: see tenterhook n. 2c. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > be apprehensive [verb (intransitive)] trance1340 to be on (the) tenter(s1633 to be on (the) tenterhooks1748 stew1917 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > state of uncertainty, suspense > be in suspense [verb (intransitive)] dependc1430 to hang up1623 to be on (the) tenter(s1633 to be on (the) tenterhooks1748 (to be, sit, stand, walk) on thorns (a thorn)1768 the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > anxiety > be anxious [verb (intransitive)] > be acutely anxious to be on (the) tenter(s1633 to chafe, fret, fry, melt, stew, sweat in one's own grease1663 to be on (the) tenterhooks1748 to be on heckle pins1850 sweat1963 1633 J. Ford Broken Heart i. iii. sig. C2 My very heart strings Are on the Tenters. 1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 30 I was upon the Tenters to know the Reason of my Confinement. 1794 W. Scott Let. 8 June (1932) I. 30 Your curiosity will be upon the Tenters to hear the wonderful events. 1806 ‘C. Caustic’ Democracy Unveiled (ed. 3) I. ii. 39 Stretch'd on the tenters of anxiety By blunder crime or impropriety. †4. A stretching implement: ? = tent n.³ Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > stretching implement tenter1607 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 187 Put in the Opponax, and of both together make like taynters or splints and thurst [sic] them into the wound. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 302 This applyed to the bytten place in a linnen cloth, and tentures twice a day, did perfectly recouer her health within a month. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iv. i. 360 A Box of Anatomick Instruments; sc. Saws, Steel and Ivory Knives,..a Tenter. Compounds C1. General attributive. See also tenter-ground n., tenterhook n., tenter-yard n. tenter-stretched adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > [adjective] > of argument: valid, constructive > not weaka1538 tenter-stretched1641 weakish1890 1641 B. Rudyerd Five Speeches in Parl. 17 Not to presse such tenter-stretch'd arguments. C2. tenter-balk n. (also tenter-bauk) see quots. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > hook or frame for hanging meat > supporting beams tenter-balk1876 roost1880 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Tenter-bauks, the beams to which the butcher's meat-hooks are fastened. tenter-bar n. ΚΠ 1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tenter-bar, a device for stretching cloth. tenter-field n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > stretching > place for tenter-place1457 tenter-yard1481 tenter-ground1714 tenter-field1844 1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. iii. 104 The cloth is stretched out and hung up to dry. This used to be done in the tenter-fields. tenter-frame n. = sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > stretching > framework tenter13.. rack1328 tenter-frame1835 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 192 When the fulling is finished, the cloth is stretched once more on the tenter-frame, and left in the open air till it is dry. 1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood Gloss. at Tenters The tenter-frames are upright bars placed at a short distance from each other and connected by other horizontal ones, top and bottom, having an array of hooks at equal distances on which the cloth is fastened by the listing of both sides. tenter-house n. tenter-machine n. see sense 1 (note). tenter-place n. = tenter-ground n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > stretching > place for tenter-place1457 tenter-yard1481 tenter-ground1714 tenter-field1844 1457 in R. Arnold Chron. (c1503) f. xxv/2 All thoo in the said cite or subbarbis that ocupye..teynter placys for fullers. tenter-timber n. timber for making tenters. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > wood for other specific uses mazera1200 waywoodware1334 piling1422 tenter-timber1562 pinwood1580 mazer wood1594 stop-rice1653 pudlay1679 puncheon1686 veneer1702 pit-wood1715 broach-wood1835 chipwood1838 matchwood1838 fretwood1881 pulpwood1881 coffin-wood1883 bur1885 spool-wood1895 1562 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 152 Stees, stanggs, peatts, old tenture tymber, xs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tentern.² Brit. /ˈtɛntə/, U.S. /ˈtɛn(t)ər/ Etymology: < tent v.⁶ + -er suffix¹. 1. One who lives or lodges in a tent. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > dweller in tent lodgera1300 Scenite1575 tenter1846 camper1856 tent-man1880 1846 Indiana Hist. Mag. XXIII. 409 The eating hours were the same as those of the tenters. 1888 Harper's Mag. Oct. 801/1 The pretty girl of our civilization, who pushes into the canvas home of the tenters. 1907 Daily News 27 Nov. 3/2 Originally intended for the benefit of gipsies, the evangelism..has attracted adherents from all classes, now proud to style themselves ‘tenters’. 2. One whose job is to erect and strike tents. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > one who sets up tents stenter1545 tenter1864 1864 J. G. Bertram Glimpses Real Life xiii. 123 There must be a tent-master and tenters, besides the agent in advance, the members of the brass band, [etc.]. 1979 Daily Tel. 23 Apr. 14/8 The slow building and dismantling of the marquee on stage was..a documentary about tenters and their jobs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tentern.³ Brit. /ˈtɛntə/, U.S. /ˈtɛn(t)ər/ Etymology: < tent v.¹ + -er suffix¹. dialect. 1. a. One who minds, or has charge of, anything requiring attention, as a machine, a flock, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > one who looks after nurse?a1425 minder1692 tenter1828 mother hen1873 nursemaid1943 citizen advocate1971 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Tenters, watchers, moor-tenters. 1863 Mrs. Toogood Specim. Yorks. Dial. I will hire that boy as a tenter for my sheep. 1870 Inquiry Yorks. Deaf & Dumb 59 Simeon Smith, cropping-machine tenter. 1885 Manch. Examiner 20 Feb. 5/3 The engine tenter..found the doors of the mill unlocked. b. Applied to a watchdog. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > guard dog porter?a1425 wap1464 dog keeper1576 mooner1576 warner1576 house dog1577 mâtin1579 defender1607 housekeeper1607 watchdoga1616 moondog1668 yard-dog1795 guard dog1796 big dog1833 tenter1844 junkyard dog1936 prowl dog1974 1844 S. Bamford Walks S. Lancs. 47 in Eng. Dial. Dict. Will he do for a tenter? will he bark at night? 2. An attendant on a skilled workman, who gives him unskilled help, supplies materials, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to status > [noun] > assistant assistant?1541 adjacent1600 help1645 helper1686 aide1762 asst1782 tenter1894 offsider1904 runabout1957 ancillary1962 gofer1967 1894 Labour Commission Gloss. Tenters, assistants to the weaver, generally children, who have gone through a short process of probation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tenterv. Brit. /ˈtɛntə/, U.S. /ˈtɛn(t)ər/ Etymology: < tenter n.¹ 1. a. transitive. To stretch (cloth) on a tenter or tenters. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > treat or process textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > stretch > on tenters tent1377 tenter1437 set1473 1437 Coventry Leet Bk. 187 Yeff so be that hit wol-not bere the seyde lengeth than that the walker Teynter hym out to the lengethe off xv yerdes. 1473 in R. Arnold Chron. (c1503) f. xxvij^v/1 The vntrouth falshed and desept..now daily vsed in the fullyng teynteryng or settyng and sheryng of wullen cloth. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. D7 After they haue bought their cloth, they cause it to be tentered, racked, and so drawne out, as it shall be both broader, and longer than it was. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §12 As when..Leather or Cloth tentured spring back. 1673 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. (1882) I. 354 Having some land..where his cloth is tentered. 1789 J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle II. 320 The ordinary of this society, called anciently walkers,..enacted that no brother should..tentor cloth on a Sunday. 1876 W. Cudworth Round about Bradford vii. 466 Returning home.., the cloth was ‘tentered’—that is, if weather permitted. †b. transferred. To hang or stretch as on a tenter or tenters. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > on the rack spread?c1225 fordrawc1380 enginec1405 rack?a1439 stentc1480 streekc1480 draw1481 brake1530 excarnificate1570 excruciate1570 stretch1585 to break on the torture1598 distend1599 tenter1615 tousea1616 tympanize1647 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > attach or affix [verb (transitive)] > as if on a tenter tenter1615 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 244 If the heart needed any tension, it might better haue beene tentered, and with shorter stringes to the spine of the back. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 194 Do the cruel tormentors tenter out his pretious limmes. a1677 I. Barrow Brief Expos. Creed (1697) 184 We may easily imagine what acerbity of pain must be endured in his limbs being stretched forth, racked and tentered. †2. figurative. To set on the tenter, or on tenterhooks: see tenter n.¹ 3, tenterhook n. 2b. Also, to injure or pain as by stretching; to rack, torture (the feelings, etc.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > misapply > apply or use beyond its province overstretcha1425 to put, set, stretch, etc. on (the) tenter(sa1533 stretch1553 to put, set, strain, stretch on the tenterhooks1583 outstretch1597 strain1597 tenter1611 overdraw1889 1611 R. Fenton Treat. Vsurie 38 Verily if vsurie were not, men would tenter their wits, either in trading themselues or imploying others. a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush ii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ll/1 He do's stretch Tenter his credite so. 1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox iii. 49 It might be done without tentering his Conscience. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. iv. §32 247 It is plain..that Pepys, being once tentered, should have come off secundum artem. †3. intransitive. Of cloth: To admit of being stretched on the tenter; to bear tentering. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > treat or process textile fabrics [verb (intransitive)] > stretch tenter1626 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §841 Parchment or leather will stretch, paper will not; woollen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹13..n.²1846n.³1828v.1437
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