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Tenterhooks or
tenter hooks are
hooked nails used with a
device known as a
tenter, a
wooden frame, used
since at
least the 14th
century in the process...
- fulling. The wet
cloth was
hooked onto
frames called "
tenters" and
stretched taut
using "
tenter hooks", so that the
cloth would dry flat and square. It is...
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holding it. The
earlier non-mechanized
equivalent was the
tenter frame.
Stenter is
derived from "
tenter",
which has its
origins in the
Latin word tendere, meaning...
- A
tent peg (or
tent stake) is a spike,
usually with a
hook or hole on the top end,
typically made from wood, metal, plastic, or
composite material, pushed...
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inside or
outside of the
tent fabric. When
located on the interior,
poles are held in
place by a
variety of
means including hook and loop
style straps,...
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Teinters Green,
believed to be an area
where cloth was
stretched on
tenter hooks. In the
grounds of St
Alphege church is a now
Grade II
listed ruin dating...
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Outside the Wall were
wooden tenter frames used for
stretching newly woven cloth (the
origin of the
phrase 'to be on
tenter hooks'). A gun
foundry can also...
- tipi. Bell
tents have
become the
classic type of
accommodation used in
modern luxury camping, or glamping,
often kitted out with
electricity hook-up, double...
- The Basics,
Sixth &
Spring Books, NY. (2005); p. 10. Look up fulling or
tenter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
model of a
fulling mill on view at...
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murder of
Sophie Hook was a
widely reported child murder which took
place in Llandudno,
North Wales, in July 1995.
Sophie Louise Hook (27 May 1988 – 30...
