These processes are followed by stretching the cloth on great frames known as tenters, to which it is attached by
tenterhook s.
Kaynak: Fullingformerly an enclosed area where Flemish weavers stretched and dried cloth on machines called tenters (hence the expression "on
tenterhook s").
Kaynak: ChutsIt is from this process that we have the expression "on
tenterhook s", meaning in a state of nervous tension. There were tentergrounds
Kaynak: TentergroundIts title comes from the
tenterhook s used to stretch cloth. Track listing ": "White Paddy Rap" "Forkless Tree" "Mary" "Lizard Brain"
Kaynak: Tenterhooks (album)There is a tenter frame , with the
tenterhook s to show how the cloth was dried without shrinking and how teasle s were used to lift up
Kaynak: Helmshore Mills Textile Museum