tenter

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Synonyms: tender, center, enter, venter, teeter, tester, tenner, tetter, tinter, teater, tente

Antonyms: tender, center, enter, venter, teeter, tester, tenner, tetter, tinter, teater, tente

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Noun

1. A [[framework]] upon which [[cloth]] is [[stretch]]ed and [[dry|dried]].
2. One who takes care of, or tends, [[machine]]s in a [[factory]]; a kind of [[assistant]] [[foreman]].
3. {{lb|en|engineering}} A kind of [[governor]], or regulating device.

Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[stretch]] cloth on such a framework.
2. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To admit extension; to be stretchable.

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