Definition of Tenter hook. Meaning of Tenter hook. Synonyms of Tenter hook

- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- doubtful. The arms showed quarterly, 1 and 4 three tent hooks, 2 and 4 a lion rampant. The hooks may be sable or vert, the lion may be azure or argent...