Tenter
[tentә]
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
(n.) A kind of governor.
(n.) A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square.
(v. i.) To admit extension.
(v. t.) To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.
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解釋/意思:
n. a machine for extending or stretching cloth on by hooks.—v.t. to stretch on hooks.—n. Ten′ter-hook a sharp hooked nail anything that gives torture.—Be on tenter-hooks to be on the stretch: to be in suspense or anxiety.
n. one who has charge of something.—adj. Ten′ty attentive.
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