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