Crossword-Solution: TENTERHOOK
We have 4 clues for the answer “TENTERHOOK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Nail to hold cloth stretched on a frame. | 1 answer |
| a sharp, hooked nail to fasten cloth to a tenter | 1 answer |
| Nail | 41 answers |
| Hanger | 58 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ARAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with TENTERHOOK (3)
They won't press me, sartin sure, 'cos o' my tenterhook here, and I'll keep my weather eye open, trust me for that." Here they parted company.
Those who like such drugs mixed up with a _quantum sufficit_ of horror, and all the tenterhook interest, hair-breadth escapes, and incident so forced as to stagger belief, which make up the hotchpotch romances whether narrative or dramatic of the present day, will like this.
Tenterhook._ Go into Bucklersbury, and fetch me two ounces of preserved melons; look there be no tobacco taken in the shop when he weighs it." And Ben Johnson, in a self-asserting poem to his bookseller, says:-- "Nor have my title-leaf on post or walls, Or in cleft sticks advanced to make calls For termers, or some clerk-like serving man, Who scarce can spell th' hard names, whose knight less can.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1960).