<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A framework on which cloth in the process of manufacture is stretched so it may set or dry evenly.</li><li>Obsolete: a tenterhook.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>To stretch (cloth) on a tenter or tenters.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>To be capable of being tented.</li></ul>