Crossword-Solution: TENTER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tenter | n. | One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman. |
| Tenter | n. | A kind of governor. |
| Tenter | n. | A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square. |
| Tenter | v. i. | To admit extension. |
| Tenter | v. t. | To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TENTER | anagram | NETTER, RETENT, TRENET, TRENTE |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TENTER (5)
Syne, while I still was on the tenter, I scunnered at the new prezentor; I thocht him gesterin’ an’ cauld— A sair declension frae the auld.
JONATHAN At the play! why, did you think I went to the devil's drawing-room? JENNY The devil's drawing-room! JONATHAN Yes; why an't cards and dice the devil's device, and the play-house the shop where the devil hangs out the vanities of the world upon the tenter-hooks of temptation? I believe you have not heard how they were acting the old boy one night, and the wicked one came among them sure enough, and went right off in a storm, and carried one quarter of the play-house with him.
After dinner she began rummaging all over the place, but without saying anything to me, and then I said quite quietly: “Do you hap--pen to be look--ing for your di--ar--y? Here it is; you--left--it in--the--fifth--class--un--der--the--third--bench.” (I kept her on tenter hooks that way.) She got as white as a sheet and said: “You _are_ an angel.
What means our Julia by those fateful looks? Please do not keep us all on tenter-hooks- Now, what's the matter? JULIA.
The old nurse had brought the two little ones in there, and kept us all on tenter-hooks running in and out.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT, Three Across, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 26 times in crossword archives (1951–2019).