† tenter-groundn.
Obsolete.
Ground occupied by tenters for stretching cloth, etc.
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tenter-place1457
tenter-yard1481
tenter-ground1714
tenter-field1844
1714 London Gaz. No. 5266/8 In the Tentor Ground by the Dog house in Bunhill fields.
1769 T. Gray Jrnl. 8 Oct. in Corr. (1971) III. 1100 I enter'd Kendal almost in the dark, & could distinguish only a shadow of the castle on a hill, and tenter-grounds spread far & wide round the town.
1887 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. VI. xxiii. 247 To steal woollen cloth from a tenter-ground.
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