tenterhook

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English

Tenter hook in an 1822 trade catalogue, published by H. Barns & Sons, of Birmingham, England

Alternative forms

tenter-hook, tenter hook

Etymology

tenter +‎ hook.

Noun

tenterhook (plural tenterhooks)

One of a series of hooks used to stretch cloth on a tenter.

Derived terms

on tenterhooks

References

tenterhook on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

heterokont

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