tenter in a sentence
Examples
- The Tenter House was erected just off the Coombe in 1815 in Cork Street, financed by Thomas Pleasants.
- One weaver would tenter 6, or 8 Lancashire Looms, which would be kept working by a tackler.
- Spokeswoman Toni Tenters reported seven people treated at Hutcheson; four were hospitalized in fair condition and three were discharged.
- In some manufacturing areas, entire tenter-fields, larger open spaces full of tenters, were once common.
- In some manufacturing areas, entire tenter-fields, larger open spaces full of tenters, were once common.
- The wet cloth was hooked onto frames called tenters and stretched taut so that the cloth would dry flat and square.
- Other young children were employed as pony tenters, they would feed and water the pit ponies in the underground stables.
- In 1881, he is again listed as a cigarette maker, with his family living on 2 Tenter Street South.
- These processes are followed by stretching the cloth on great frames known as tenters, to which it is attached by tenterhooks.
- To prevent this shrinkage, the fuller would place the wet cloth on a tenter, and leave it to dry outdoors.