tenterhook
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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