Usually means: Frame for stretching and drying fabric.
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  1. tenter: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tenter, tenter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tenter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tenter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tenter: Vocabulary.com
  6. tenter: Wordnik
  7. tenter: Wiktionary
  8. tenter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tenter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tenter: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. tenter: Dictionary.com
  12. tenter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Tenter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. tenter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. tenter: Rhymezone
  16. Tenter, tenter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. tenter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. tenter: Free Dictionary
  19. tenter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. tenter: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. tenter: Encyclopedia

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  1. TENTER: Mining Terms used in mid 1800's

(Note: See tentered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tenter)

noun:  A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried.
noun:  One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
noun:  (engineering) A kind of governor, or regulating device.
verb:  (transitive) To stretch cloth on such a framework.
verb:  (intransitive) To admit extension; to be stretchable.

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