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
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEAEMC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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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).