tenter

About 0.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried.
2. noun One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
3. noun A kind of governor, or regulating device.
4. verb To stretch cloth on such a framework.
5. verb To admit extension; to be stretchable.

Similar words

hooks lisse tautening contignation tensing tuck padding tuft couching gather

Often followed by

de frame une hooks street frames of ground d

Word family

tenters