Definition of "tenter" in Anglais

noun

1. A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried.

2. One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.

3. (engineering) A kind of governor, or regulating device.

verb

1. (transitive) To stretch cloth on such a framework.

2. (intransitive) To admit extension; to be stretchable.